Correction

Vol. 89/No. 22 - June 9, 2025

The final chart in issue no. 21 of funds collected for the Militant should have listed $6,760 from Minneapolis and a total of $172,635 for the drive.


25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 22 - June 9, 2025

June 5, 2000 NEW YORK — Republican mayor Rudolph Giuliani will not run for U.S. Senate. Giuliani’s resignation came some two weeks after a swirl of exposés about his personal life began dominating media coverage. Prior to the public frenzy…




US rulers imposed martial law on Japanese in Hawaii in WWII

Vol. 89/No. 21 - June 2, 2025

The U.S. rulers imposed martial law in their Hawaiian colony after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, wiping out constitutional protections for working people there, including the right of habeas corpus. Planning for this began shortly after the end of…


Engineers at NJ Transit end strike, debate contract offer

Vol. 89/No. 21 - June 2, 2025
New Jersey Transit engineers, members of BLET union, picket outside rail yard in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, May 17. After three-day strike, they’re now debating a tentative contrac

NEW YORK — The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen union officials announced they had signed a tentative agreement with New Jersey Transit May 18, the country’s third largest commuter railroad, ending a three-day strike that impacted some 350,000 passengers…


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…


SWP continuity on Ukraine’s fight for self-determination

Vol. 89/No. 21 - June 2, 2025

As candidates and members of the Socialist Workers Party campaign across the country, they get out the truth about Moscow’s murderous war against the people of Ukraine and rally workers to join in defending Ukraine’s sovereignty. They take the weekly…