Despite Tehran’s repression, protests are beginning again

Vol. 90/No. 18 - May 11, 2026
Workers at health center in Yazd province of Iran April 25 protest over working conditions, wages. Since U.S. rulers began war, a million have been laid off and prices have skyrocketed.

Tehran is continuing to arrest union activists and impose its strict internet shutdown, in a doomed attempt to prevent working people and oppressed nationalities from organizing to defend their interests amid the lull in the war. Opponents of the reactionary…


Free Narges Mohammadi, all political prisoners in Iran!

Vol. 90/No. 18 - May 11, 2026

NEW YORK — Narges Mohammadi has spent more than a decade in Iran’s prisons, Karin Deutsch Karlekar told a meeting at the Rizzoli Bookstore here April 22. Karlekar is the director of Writers at Risk at PEN America and co-chair…


Unite the working class! Amnesty for immigrants!

Vol. 90/No. 18 - May 11, 2026
UNITE HERE contingent at Chicago May Day rally of 400,000 in 2006, part of nationwide political strike of millions demanding amnesty for immigrants to unite the working class.

The labor movement needs to take up a crucial challenge today — to champion and help lead a fight for the 11 million workers in the U.S. without “proper papers.” This is central to prevent deportations and overcome divisions the…


US out of the Middle East! Bring all the troops home!

Vol. 90/No. 18 - May 11, 2026

As part of their blockade of Iranian ports, the U.S. rulers continue to build up their military forces in the Middle East, threatening Tehran with renewed bombing and military assaults, alongside a collapse of the Iranian economy, if it doesn’t…



Oslo meeting honors Cuba’s role in African independence struggle

Vol. 90/No. 18 - May 11, 2026
Amílcar Cabral, left, leader of independence fight in Guinea-Bissau, and Víctor Dreke, who led Cuba’s internationalist military mission, collaborate in 1967 meeting in Conakry, Guinea.

OSLO, Norway — “On behalf of the Cape Verde Organization here in Oslo — Welcome!” Danny Venancio Soares said as he opened a meeting here April 22 to present Pathfinder Press’ newest book, Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau…


The fight against Jew-hatred crucial for workers’ struggles

Vol. 90/No. 17 - May 4, 2026

Assaults against Jews have spread worldwide since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, pogrom in Israel, underscoring the fact that Jew-hatred is an integral feature of the imperialist epoch we live in. These attacks show the necessity of the working class and…


Cuba celebrates anniversary of US defeat at the Bay of Pigs

Vol. 90/No. 17 - May 4, 2026
Havana rally April 16 celebrates 65th anniversary of defeat of U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion.

Thousands of Cubans gathered in Havana’s Vedado neighborhood April 16 to mark the 65th anniversary of both their victory over the U.S.-backed mercenary invasion at the Bay of Pigs — known in Cuba as Playa Girón — and the deepening…


SWP candidates campaign against US rulers’ war drive at home, abroad

Vol. 90/No. 17 - May 4, 2026
April 18 Militant Labor Forum in Union City, New Jersey, featured Socialist Workers Party candidates. From left, Willie Cotton for lieutenant governor in New York; Joanne Kuniansky for U.S. Senate from New Jersey; Lea Sherman, chair; and Tony Lane for governor of Pennsylvania.

Socialist Workers Party candidates and members are campaigning against the U.S. rulers’ drive to war at home and abroad with workers on their doorsteps, on union picket lines and at political events. They’re making steady gains in the eight-week campaign…


Montreal blue-collar city workers strike for higher wages

Vol. 90/No. 17 - May 4, 2026

MONTREAL — Hundreds of striking blue-collar city workers rallied here April 16 on the second day of a three-day strike by the 6,200 members of Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 301. They gathered at one of the city’s busiest…