Join the SWP in campaigning for a road forward for the working class

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026
Paul Mailhot, party’s candidate for New York governor, and Joanne Kuniansky, candidate for U.S. Senate in New Jersey, at Feb. 22 protest in New York defending Cuban sovereignty and its socialist revolution.

Members of the Socialist Workers Party are encouraging readers of the Militant who subscribed during the party’s recent spring campaign to join them in building solidarity with union strike struggles and in organizing actions to defend Cuba from Washington’s growing…


Free Ahmed Douma, Egyptian poet, activist

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026
Ahmed Douma at 2011 march in Tahrir Square, Cairo. A poet and political activist, he was arrested, imprisoned on frame-up charges of “publishing false news” April 6.

Ahmed Douma, an Egyptian poet, writer and fighter for political rights, was imprisoned yet again April 6. He was accused of “publishing false news and statements inside and outside the country with the intent to disturb public peace and spread…



25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026

May 28, 2001 A demonstration of 100 in Salinas, California, May 13 grew in size as it marched there. Workers drove to the action from Fresno, Palo Alto, and San Mateo. Members of the Indigenous Oaxacan Front of Mexico participated…


LIRR workers end strike, look to vote on new contract offer

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026
Long Island Rail Road workers on picket line at Jamaica Station May 17. Many workers stopped by to show support. We’re here “to stand in unity,” a Teamster member at UPS told the Militant.

NEW YORK — After 3,500 rail unionists on the Long Island Rail Road had been on strike for three days, officials from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and union negotiators announced May 19 that an agreement had been reached and ended…


Build protests now to defend Cuba’s sovereignty! US hands off Cuba!

A Call to Action by the Socialist Workers Party
Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026

The following statement was released May 26 by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, on behalf of the party’s National Committee. The Socialist Workers Party, in the strongest possible terms, condemns the U.S. rulers’ accelerating acts of…


‘Militant’ fights prison bans in both Florida and Tennessee

Vol. 90/No. 21 - June 1, 2026

Following a monthslong fight by defenders of free speech and the rights of workers behind bars, the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee has reversed prison bans on seven of the 10 Militants denied to inmates there this year.…



‘Militant,’ Socialist Workers Party welcome new readers

Vol. 90/No. 20 - May 25, 2026

The Militant extends a warm welcome to readers who subscribed during our successful eight-week campaign to expand the paper’s reach, as well as our other goals. Many of you were struck by the paper’s explanation that today’s spreading wars are…


Join fight against bans on ‘Militant’ in Florida prisons

Vol. 90/No. 20 - May 25, 2026

The Militant won another round in its fight against a series of bans on the paper by prison authorities April 30, when the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee reversed the impoundment of issues nos. 11, 12 and 14…