G7 summit shows deepening rifts among capitalist powers

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026

President Donald Trump joined other government leaders for a Group of Seven summit held at a French resort June 16-17. This is one of the main imperialist blocs set up to confront challenges to the capitalist world order that emerged…


US, Tehran deal means no peace in the Mideast

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026

Washington and Tehran signed a 14-point “Memorandum of Understanding” June 17. But this is not a “peace” agreement, it’s a move by Washington to work with Iran’s capitalist rulers to achieve the stability the U.S. rulers want to advance their…


Protests continue to spread in Iran, despite arrests, executions

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026
Workers at West Islamabad Health Center in Iran’s Kermanshah province protest June 22 over wages, benefits and delays in getting paid. “We are the guardians of people’s health in a deprived region, but we ourselves are struggling,” they told the Iranian Labour News Agency.

Despite devastating losses to its military, police and other parts of its repressive apparatus, as well as the destruction of many factories during the recent wars with Washington and Israel, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei claimed the ceasefire it…


Ukraine’s blows to Moscow’s forces open new strains in Putin regime

Vol. 90/No. 22 - June 8, 2026

For more than four years, Ukrainian working people have fought courageously to protect their country’s sovereignty in the face of Moscow’s murderous assaults. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who claims Ukraine doesn’t exist as a real country, is incapable of understanding…


Join ‘Militant’ fight over bans in Florida, Tennessee prisons

Vol. 90/No. 22 - June 8, 2026

Ban on Militant overturned in Tennessee Tennessee prison authorities informed the Militant’s attorney June 5 that the ban on the Militant in a prison there has been overturned. More in the next issue. The Militant is encouraging its readers to…


John Benson: a decadeslong leader of the Socialist Workers Party

Vol. 90/No. 22 - June 8, 2026
John Benson protests U.S. blockade, growing threats against Cuba in Atlanta Feb. 17. He was won to support the Cuban Revolution as a student at Carleton College over 60 years ago.

ATLANTA — Fifty-one people attended a spirited meeting here April 19 to celebrate the life and political contributions of John Benson, a member and leader of the Socialist Workers Party for 64 years. Benson died March 6 after a brief…


Capitalist rulers in Canada back Washington’s assaults on Cuba

Vol. 90/No. 22 - June 8, 2026
Canadian Network on Cuba organized demonstrations against U.S. oil blockade and other attacks on Cuba in a number of cities across the country Feb. 21-22, including Toronto, above.

MONTREAL — Canada’s capitalist rulers, along with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party government, are backing U.S. imperialism’s accelerating attacks on Cuba with the same goal — overthrowing Cuba’s socialist revolution. At the same time, a growing number of unions…


Indiana refinery workers locked out by BP stand firm

Vol. 90/No. 22 - June 8, 2026

WHITING, Ind. — “This is going to be a long one. But we are united and we’ll keep going as long as we need to,” Michelle O’Shaughnessy told the Militant on the picket line outside the BP oil refinery here…


SWP campaigns discuss road forward for the working class

Vol. 90/No. 22 - June 8, 2026
Karla Jarquín, left, buys The Fight Against Jew-Hatred and Pogroms in the Imperialist Epoch from Socialist Workers Party member Lisa Rottach in North Miami parking lot May 23.

On actions demanding U.S. hands off Cuba, strike picket lines, and knocking on doors in working-class neighborhoods, members of the Socialist Workers Party find a growing interest in what the Militant has to say on the expanding threats of war,…


Victory! Charges against Ábrego García thrown out

Vol. 90/No. 22 - June 8, 2026

WASHINGTON — “I am grateful that today, justice has taken a step forward,” Kilmar Ábrego García said after U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw Jr. dismissed criminal charges pressed by the U.S. Justice Department against him in Nashville, Tennessee, May 22.…