SWP campaigners find real interest in ‘Militant,’ party

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024

“When the Key Bridge collapsed, truckers were promised funds by the government. But that doesn’t mean we saw any money,” Ernest Beard, a trucker and a veteran, told James Harris, Socialist Workers Party candidate for D.C. delegate to the U.S.…


Why fight to defend constitutional freedoms is key for working class

Vol. 88/No. 41 - November 4, 2024

Safeguarding freedom of speech, assembly and worship, the right to bear arms, and other constitutional protections are at the center of politics and the class struggle, and will remain so regardless of which party controls the White House after the…


Seattle union support grows for machinists Boeing strike

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024

SEATTLE — Over 500 workers on strike at Boeing packed the International Association of Machinists Local 751 hall here Oct. 15, chanting, “One day longer, one day stronger” and “Pension! Pension!” Hundreds more spilled outside the hall, where supporters from…


‘Social solidarity is moral basis of Cuba’s socialist revolution’

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024
Peasant women learn to read, write at Ana Betancourt school in Havana in 1960. Under Fidel Castro’s leadership, all widows and children — whether those of rebel combatants or soldiers of former Batista dictatorship — were schooled, treated equally. The moral foundation of the socialist revolution was equality for all.

The Spanish edition of  Marianas in Combat: Teté Puebla and the Mariana Grajales Women’s Platoon in Cuba’s Revolutionary War, 1956-58 is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. Puebla was an officer in the first all-women platoon in…


Mideast showdown: Israelis fight to defend a refuge from Jew-hatred

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024
As it threatens to destroy Israel, the reactionary bourgeois regime in Tehran is worried about growing opposition among working people in Iran to its military adventures in the region. Above, teachers and retirees protest for higher wages, pensions in Tehran Oct. 13.

The Israeli government has released documents its forces captured in Gaza that provide further proof Iran’s capitalist rulers and the leadership of Hezbollah in Lebanon — despite their denials — were centrally involved in the yearslong preparations for Hamas’ Oct.…


Endorse, build the SWP’s 2024 campaign!

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024

For the growing number of workers repelled by the Democratic and Republican parties and seeking ways to strengthen working-class interests and our unions, there is an alternative in 2024. The Socialist Workers Party is running Rachele Fruit for president, Dennis…


UK food workers strike at Bakkavor enters fourth week

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024
Unite union members picket Oct. 15 demanding higher wages at Bakkavor in Spalding, England. Strikers have called solidarity march from the picket line to the town center for Oct. 22.

SPALDING, England — Morale on the picket line of strikers at food giant Bakkavor has been buoyed by 38 additional workers joining the strike and signing up for the union during the last week. Over 700 Unite members are entering…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024

November 1, 1999 WASHINGTON, D.C. — “No deportations”; “Amnesty now”; “No more arrests on the job.” These were among the most common signs as 5,000 people marched through the capital to demand full rights for undocumented workers and to oppose…


Cuba: ‘End Washington’s economic, trade war against our revolution!’

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024
March against Washington’s embargo of Cuba, Aug. 27, 2022, in East Harlem, New York. U.S. rulers’ decades of economic aggression are aimed at strangling the socialist revolution in Cuba.

Below are excerpts from “Drop the Blockade!” a powerful report prepared by the Cuban government detailing the punishing effects of the U.S. rulers’ decadeslong economic, financial and trade embargo against Cuba’s people and socialist revolution. The report was submitted to…