‘Fight for workers power key to humanity moving forward’

Vol. 89/No. 12 - March 31, 2025
Paul Mailhot, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of New York, campaigns at March 15 union rally against government job cuts. Mailhot is seeking coverage in New York media.

Below is a March 13 letter to the editors of the New York Post by Paul Mailhot, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of New York. Pointing to the paper’s March 9 feature interview with Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialists…


New documents show Hamas, Tehran aimed to destroy Israel

Vol. 89/No. 12 - March 31, 2025

Documents discovered by the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza that were recently made public confirm that Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, pogrom had the explicit aim of destroying Israel. They record exchanges between Hamas, Hezbollah and the reactionary regime in Tehran…


High prices keep grinding away at the working class

Vol. 89/No. 11 - March 24, 2025

Soaring prices for some groceries and persistently high prices for everything at the store continue to squeeze the conditions of life for working people, every time they have to stop by the supermarket to get goods. While monthly price rises…


‘We need to stand up,’ Teamsters picket 10 Roads Express

Vol. 89/No. 11 - March 24, 2025

ROMEOVILLE, Ill. — “10 Roads is making a lot of money and not sharing it. They should call it ‘10 Cash Registers.’ That’s why we’re camped out here,” Bert Mitchell, a member of Teamsters Local 727, told the Militant on…


Jews and Israel face continuing threats from Hamas, Tehran

Vol. 89/No. 11 - March 24, 2025
Jabalia, Gaza, Feb. 21. Hamas’ placement of its tunnels, command centers and weapons caches underneath residences, schools, mosques and hospitals is responsible for destruction in Gaza. “We’ve had enough of what Hamas put us through,” one Gaza resident said.

Both Hamas and Tehran are using the unstable ceasefire in Gaza to try to recover from the blows Israel has dealt them and to advance their long-term aim of destroying Israel and all the Jews there. Some 17 months after…


Teamsters on strike in Georgia fight to keep union

Vol. 89/No. 11 - March 24, 2025

PALMETTO, Ga. — A determined group of six Teamsters, members of Local 728, have been staffing the picket line at the 10 Roads Express satellite yard here every day since Feb. 27 when they joined 500 others in eight states…


Build solidarity with strike by over 6,000 school workers in Alberta

Vol. 89/No. 11 - March 24, 2025
School support workers in Alberta, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, on picket line March 4. They are fighting for higher wages after four years without a new contract.

EDMONTON, Alberta — Over 6,600 school workers, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, are on strike across Alberta for higher wages. The workers include educational assistants, cafeteria workers, librarians, administrative office workers and custodians. “Many of us have…


US rulers lost the Cold War, spurring world disorder, new wars

Vol. 89/No. 11 - March 24, 2025
Joint NATO military exercise crossing Vistula River in Poland March 4, 2024. NATO is “less of an alliance than ever before,” Socialist Workers Party National Secretary Jack Barnes explains. Growing imperialist world disorder today breeds sharpening capitalist rivalries and wars.

The Spanish edition of Capitalism’s World Disorder: Working-Class Politics at the Millennium by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for March. The book explains the coming apart of the…



ACLU joins fight to overturn ban on the ‘Militant’ in Florida prisons

Vol. 89/No. 11 - March 24, 2025

Florida state prison authorities informed the Militant  that the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee would hold an initial hearing March 6 to discuss the impoundment of the Militant’s Jan. 20, 2025, issue at the Santa Rosa Correctional Institution…