SWP plans to host international conference in Ohio

Vol. 89/No. 21 - June 2, 2025

The Socialist Workers Party is holding an international conference at Oberlin College in Ohio June 12-14. The conference will feature reports by leaders of the SWP and classes about the party’s main programmatic resolutions and reports over the last 40…


Union-led rallies protest gov’t arrests, deportations of immigrant workers

Unions demand return of deported SMART member
Vol. 89/No. 21 - June 2, 2025

WASHINGTON — “Labor Demands Justice for Kilmar” is the headline on a flyer for a May 22 rally — postponed at the last minute by forecasted heavy wind and rain, to be rescheduled shortly. It demands the U.S. government bring…


US rulers fight to keep hold on the imperialist world ‘order’

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025
Russian ballistic missiles ripped through Sumy, Ukraine, April 13, killing at least 35 people and wounding 84. Washington seeks to lay groundwork for alliance with Moscow against Beijing.

Since Donald Trump retook the presidency earlier this year, he’s said the goal of his administration is to resolve the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, use tariffs to improve U.S. bosses’ profits worldwide and upgrade the U.S. military…


Unions, others step up fight to defend immigrant workers from deportation

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025
SMART General President Michael Coleman demands return of fellow union member Kilmar Abrego Garcia at news conference in Maryland April 4. Abrego was denied due process, deported, imprisoned in El Salvador. His wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, left, is leading the fight.

WASHINGTON — “Bring Kilmar Home,” the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA posted on its Facebook page April 27. “Flight attendant, union apprentice, farmworker. It doesn’t matter where you work. An injury to one is an injury to all.” They joined a…


Shin Bet treason opened door to Hamas pogrom

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025

After Hamas carried out its deadly pogrom Oct. 7, 2023, acrimonious divisions that have wracked Israeli politics for years heated up. It has now turned into a political civil war. The liberal capitalist media in Israel and the U.S. present…



SWP in 1938: ‘Revolutionary party has to combat Jew-hatred’

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025
Members of Socialist Workers Party helped initiate picket at German Consulate in New York in November 1938 demanding Washington open its doors to Jewish and other victims of Nazi terror. Party resolution said road to end Jew-hatred was fight for workers power, socialism.

The Founding of the Socialist Workers Party: Minutes and Resolutions, 1938-39 is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. The communist movement in the U.S. was founded in 1919 to emulate V.I. Lenin and the Bolsheviks, who led…


BCTGM flour mill strikers stand strong, win solidarity

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025
Members of BCTGM Local 3G picket at Knappen Milling plant in Augusta, Michigan, April 30. They have been on strike since March 11, fighting for higher wages and safety on the job.

AUGUSTA, Mich. — After two months on strike, members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 3G are standing strong. The 20 workers who make baking flour at Knappen Milling here walked out March 11, fighting for wages…


What’s behind the India-Pakistan war over Kashmir

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025

Four days of escalating fighting erupted between the rulers of India and Pakistan May 7, threatening full-scale war between the two nuclear-armed powers. Growing out of cross-border shelling in the disputed region of Kashmir, drone and air-launched missile strikes soon…


Georgia Teamsters stand firm in strike against 10 Roads Express

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025

PALMETTO, Ga. — “We can tell the strike is hurting the company,” Billy Glover, a driver at 10 Roads Express for 24 years and member of Teamsters Local 728, told the Militant April 29. “With the union, work is safer.…