Join fight against ban on ‘Militant’ in Phoenix jail!

Vol. 89/No. 6 - February 17, 2025

The fight to reverse the unconstitutional ban of the Nov. 11, 2024, issue of the Militant by authorities at the Lower Buckeye Jail in Phoenix is winning support from defenders of civil liberties and prisoners’ political rights from around the…


Quebec forum builds solidarity with Cuba’s socialist revolution

Vol. 89/No. 6 - February 17, 2025
Militant Labour Forum defends Cuban Revolution in Montreal, Feb. 1. From left, Michel Prairie, Communist League; Sean O’Donoghue, secretary of Quebec-Cuba Solidarity Roundtable; Katy LeRougetel, CL candidate for Parliament; Idrisse Diallo, doctor originally from Guinea.

MONTREAL — The Feb. 1 Militant Labour Forum here featured a panel, “Defend Cuba’s socialist revolution against the war of Washington and its allies: Remove Cuba from the list of countries that ‘support terrorism.’” Panelists included Michel Prairie from the…



No US immigration prison in Cuba! US out of Guantánamo!

Vol. 89/No. 6 - February 17, 2025

After Washington announced plans to imprison thousands of immigrant workers on the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo, Cuba’s Ministry of the Exterior responded Jan. 29. The U.S. rulers seized Guantánamo Bay in 1903 as spoils of their victory in the…


SWP: ‘Fight to unify the working class’

Vol. 89/No. 6 - February 17, 2025
SWP: ‘Fight to unify the working class’

DALLAS — Alyson Kennedy, right, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Fort Worth, and Hilda Cuzco, the party’s candidate for Fort Worth City Council, joined a rally downtown of thousands here Feb. 2 to protest the step up in…


Fight continues against South Africa gov’t over miners deaths

Vol. 89/No. 6 - February 17, 2025
Protest by relatives and friends of miners trapped in underground gold mine near Stilfontein, South Africa, in November. Death toll from government blockade of mine now stands at 88.

The death toll from the South African government’s five-month blockade of miners underground at the abandoned Stilfontein gold mine stands at 88. This includes bodies retrieved by community volunteers prior to the Jan. 13-15 rescue when 78 bodies along with…


Working class responds to LA fires disaster with solidarity

Vol. 89/No. 5 - February 10, 2025
Roger Dagoberto Cruz, left, a gutter installer, told Eric Simpson, SWP candidate for mayor of Oakland, that when work is slow he volunteers at the local job center to help others get work.

ALTADENA, Calif. — “Under capitalism, every time a disaster happens, the bosses and their politicians merely recreate the same conditions for it to happen again,” said Eric Simpson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Oakland mayor and a union factory worker,…


New US gov’t takes shape amid growing conflicts, wars

Vol. 89/No. 5 - February 10, 2025

Since Donald Trump took office as president again Jan. 20, he has moved to advance his “Make America Great Again” nationalist agenda and, at the same time, to promote his pledge that his plans will mean a pro-worker White House.…


Las Vegas hotel workers win 69-day strike at Virgin Hotels

Vol. 89/No. 5 - February 10, 2025
Workers at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas ended 69-day strike Jan. 22, winning key demands, including wage increase. Above, picket in November. Strike won much-needed union solidarity.

The 700 members of Culinary Workers Local 226 and of Bartenders Local 165, both UNITE HERE affiliates, voted unanimously to end a 69-day strike Jan. 22 after bosses at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas met most of their demands. The bosses,…