Dave Prince: Marxist, revolutionary working-class leader of the SWP

New York meeting of 160 celebrated Prince’s life and political contributions over six decades
Vol. 90/No. 20 - May 25, 2026
Panel at New York meeting March 22 celebrating life and political contributions of Dave Prince. Inset, Jack Barnes, national secretary of SWP who collaborated closely with Prince in party leadership work for decades, with Mary-Alice Waters and Paul Mailhot, co-chairs of the meeting.

NEW YORK — “Above all, Dave Prince was a Marxist, a working-class revolutionist,” Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, told participants at a March 22 event here celebrating Prince’s life and political contributions building a proletarian party…


Hundreds of LIRR workers rally May 9, win solidarity

Vol. 90/No. 20 - May 25, 2026
Rally by hundreds of rail workers in Massapequa, New York, May 9. Five unions under anti-labor Railway Labor Act have been tied up in red tape and barred from striking for three years.

MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. — Some 500 rail workers and their supporters rallied here May 9, as a strike deadline one week away approaches, in a three-year-long fight with Long Island Rail Road bosses for a new contract with wages that keep…



Protest demands action from gov’t after stabbings of Jews

Vol. 90/No. 20 - May 25, 2026

LONDON — Thousands gathered outside the prime minister’s office at No. 10 Downing Street May 10 in response to a call by Jewish organizations and other opponents of antisemitism to show their determination to fight escalating Jew-hatred in the U.K.…


Moscow’s war threatens a new nuclear disaster at Chernobyl

Vol. 90/No. 20 - May 25, 2026
April 26, 1989, rally in Chernobyl, Ukraine, on third anniversary of nuclear meltdown. Signs say, “Down with secrets of Chernobyl!” and ask “Who is responsible?” These protests grew, joining with other struggles to forge Ukrainian independence movement.

On April 26, 1986, an explosion and a 10-day fire destroyed reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, unleashing the world’s worst nuclear catastrophe to date. The bureaucratic Stalinist regime in…


Cuba’s people stand against escalating new US sanctions

Vol. 90/No. 20 - May 25, 2026
Solar-powered charging station, or “solinera,” in Santa Clara, Cuba, the first of its kind in the country, provides free power to workers facing blackouts caused by Washington’s oil blockade.

While millions of people in Cuba demonstrated in defense of the country’s sovereignty and socialist revolution May 1, the U.S. capitalist rulers imposed a new round of punishing sanctions, intensifying their efforts to topple the government. President Donald Trump’s administration…


‘Militant,’ books, spring fund all are over the top!

Vol. 90/No. 20 - May 25, 2026
Margaret Trowe, SWP candidate for California governor, with strikers on picket line at JBS plant in Greeley, Colorado, April 2. The SWP uses Militant, its campaigns to support union fights.

Members of the Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom brought home May 12 the eight-week spring campaign to win 1,300 Militant subscriptions and sell the same number of books by SWP leaders and…


Putin’s Ukraine war is ruining Russian working people

Vol. 90/No. 20 - May 25, 2026

For the first time in almost two decades, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual Victory Day parade celebrating the Soviet Union’s defeat of Germany in World War II had no tanks or ballistic missiles in Moscow’s Red Square May 9. And…


Support Israel’s fight against Tehran, Hamas, Hezbollah

Vol. 90/No. 19 - May 18, 2026

Well before Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, pogrom, the Militant explained working people must oppose Jew-hatred and why. Hamas, backed by the reactionary regime in Tehran, slaughtered 1,200 people in Israel that day because they were Jewish or worked side by…


Workers and farmers in Cuba proved socialist revolution is possible

Vol. 90/No. 19 - May 18, 2026
The Second Declaration of Havana, delivered by Fidel Castro, was adopted by mass assemblies of workers, peasants across Cuba. In Santiago de Cuba, above, 100,000 marched Feb. 10, 1962.

The First and Second Declarations of Havana: Manifestos of Revolutionary Struggle in the Americas adopted by the Cuban people is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. Between the 1960 and 1962 declarations, both given by Fidel Castro…