US gov’t threatens to cancel right to habeas corpus workers need

Vol. 89/No. 21 - June 2, 2025
For decades, tens of thousands of Japanese toiled on sugar plantations in Hawaii. In World War II, U.S. rulers imposed martial law, ended habeas corpus for Japanese and all workers.

Top officials in the Donald Trump administration say they’re leaning toward suspending the constitutionally protected right of habeas corpus, the inalienable right of all people — U.S. citizens or not — to challenge their arrest in court. The threat comes…



New Zealand meeting calls for ‘U.S. hands off Cuba!’

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025
The U.S. is increasing attacks on Cuba, Luis Morejón Rodríguez, Cuba’s ambassador to New Zealand, said April 27, with new sanctions against countries that request medical aid from Cuba.

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Luis Morejón Rodríguez, Cuba’s ambassador to New Zealand, called for support from a gathering of 25 people here April 27 for Cuba’s fight against the “economic strangulation” imposed by the U.S. rulers’ 60-plus-years of economic war…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025

May 22, 2000 U.S. Navy warplanes resumed bombing practice on Vieques May 8, in a demonstrative show of force to try to intimidate those who have been fighting to get the U.S. military out of that Puerto Rican island. This…


UK forum: ‘VE Day events are about preparations for war’

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025

LONDON — “The celebrations of Victory in Europe Day marking the end of the second imperialist world war there, in London, Moscow and elsewhere in the past few days are not about history,” Communist League leader Catharina Tirsén told a…




SWP campaign, ‘Militant,’ books reach thousands

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025
Laura Anderson, SWP candidate for mayor of Miami, introduces Jim St. Louis to the Militant, books by SWP leaders at Little Haiti Book Festival May 4. “Amazing! We need this,” he said.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Members of the Socialist Workers Party, and of the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K., are organizing to complete the spring campaign to win 1,300 Militant subscribers, sell a similar number of books by revolutionary…



Mali protests demand end to military rule, junta bans politics

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025

Defying threats by Mali’s dictatorial military government, hundreds of people took to the streets of Bamako, capital of this west African nation, May 3 to protest the announcement by the regime that junta ruler Assimi Goita would be named as…