Defense of Israel and the working-class struggle

Vol. 89/No. 26 - July 28, 2025

Defense of Israel’s right to exist as a refuge from Jew-hatred and pogroms is not a religious question. It is a class and a national question, intertwined with the fight against national oppression across the globe. Israel’s right to exist…


Communist League campaigns at Miners’ Gala in UK

Vol. 89/No. 26 - July 28, 2025

DURHAM, England — Communist League members joined tens of thousands of trade unionists and others from the north of England, Scotland and elsewhere at the Durham Miners’ Gala July 12. The event included a contingent of striking refuse workers from…


25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 89/No. 26 - July 28, 2025

July 24, 2000 PORTADOWN, Northern Ireland — Hundreds of local residents had gathered here July 9, behind razor wire and barricades erected by the British Army, and successfully prevented for the third year running a rightist Orange Order parade from…


‘The working class needs to take political power’

Vol. 89/No. 26 - July 28, 2025
Paul Mailhot, left, SWP candidate for mayor of New York, met Derrick Miles, right, at a campaign table in South Bronx July 13. “I know the Militant,” Miles said. “We discussed articles in that paper in our City College classes back in the day. I know that Malcolm X spoke highly of it.”

Thousands of workers open to discussing SWP program NEW YORK — Paul Mailhot, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of New York, and Craig Honts, SWP candidate for lieutenant governor in New Jersey, shared the platform at a Militant Labor…


War in Ukraine fuels rising Russia-Azerbaijan tensions

Vol. 89/No. 25 - July 21, 2025

Tensions have sharpened between the capitalist rulers of Russia and Azerbaijan since the end of June after Russian cops, who were investigating a murder case from 2001, detained over 50 Azerbaijani nationals in Yekaterinburg in central Russia. Two died in…



For an amnesty to unite the working class

Vol. 89/No. 25 - July 21, 2025

The families, co-workers and neighbors of Kilmar Abrego García and other workers who face deportation, along with their unions, are setting an important example. They’re coming together to fight for them to win legal status, to stay in the U.S.,…


25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 89/No. 25 - July 21, 2025

July 17, 2000 SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minnesota — With two and half weeks left before workers at Dakota Premium Foods will vote to decide whether or not they will be members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 789, tensions…


‘The working class needs to take political power in our own hands’

Vol. 89/No. 25 - July 21, 2025
Kevin Dwire, center, SWP candidate for Minneapolis mayor, and Edwin Fruit, right, candidate for Minneapolis City Council, talk with Tonisha Bond July 2. She signed to put Dwire on ballot.

SWP campaign in Minneapolis goes over the top in ballot drive MINNEAPOLIS — After nine days of campaigning throughout the city, Socialist Workers Party members have collected 757 signatures, over the goal of 750, to put Kevin Dwire, the SWP’s…


Hospital strike ends in Oakland, workers vow to continue fight

Vol. 89/No. 25 - July 21, 2025
“We’re going back with our heads high,” NUHW shop steward Jackki Patrick, front center, told the Militant. Union is continuing fight to keep contract at Oakland hospital.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Hospital workers ended a strike at University of California Benioff Children’s Hospital here June 30 after a judge denied a motion by their union, the National Union of Healthcare Workers, for an injunction to halt the University…