NY building workers rally, authorize strike

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026
NY building workers rally, authorize strike

NEW YORK — Thousands of apartment building workers, members of 32BJ Service Employees International Union, turned out for a boisterous strike-vote rally in the Upper East Side of Manhattan April 15. By a large show of hands they authorized the…


Meet Leslie Dork, new on ‘Militant’

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026

Joining the Militant’s writing staff of full-time volunteers is Leslie Dork, a member of the Socialist Workers Party branch in Northern New Jersey. Dork joined the Young Socialist Alliance in 1970 in Cleveland, and the party later that year. She…


Israel fights to defend its existence as a refuge for Jews

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026

Since March 2 Israel has launched airstrikes and ground attacks dealing blows to Hezbollah, after the Tehran-backed group unleashed missiles from Lebanon at civilian populations in Israel. Like its patrons in Tehran, and fellow “axis of resistance” forces in Iraq,…


SWP NJ ballot drive finds real interest in party, program

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026

UNION CITY, N.J. — Two and a half weeks into the campaign to win ballot status for the Socialist Workers Party in New Jersey, SWP campaigners are finding serious interest in the party’s program and candidates as they speak out…


Rally in Quebec calls for defense of immigrants’ rights

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026

DRUMMONDVILLE, Quebec — Hundreds protested here April 12 outside the leadership convention of the province’s governing party, the Coalition for the Future of Quebec (CAQ). Protesters included ambulance drivers, organized by the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN), who have…


Bay of Pigs: Washington’s first military defeat in the Americas

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026
Cuban militia members celebrate after April 1961 victory over U.S.-sponsored mercenary force, helping transform their country, themselves as they set example for workers worldwide.

Playa Girón/Bay of Pigs 1961: Washington’s First Military Defeat in the Americas by Fidel Castro and José Ramón Fernández is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. This year is the 65th anniversary of this victory by Cuban…


SWP candidates: Tribunes of the people

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026

The candidates of the Socialist Workers Party are the only voice in the 2026 elections that champion workers’ struggles for a better life in the face of the rulers’ attacks at home and speak out against their bloody wars abroad.…


End Washington’s war for plunder in the Middle East

Bring troops, bombers, warships home now!
Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026
USS Abraham Lincoln, above right, leads one of three U.S. carrier strike groups in Middle East as Washington blockades boats from Iran’s ports, threatens escalation, seeks new negotiations.

The Donald Trump administration is alternating between arrogant threats to restart bombing and flattery of current Iranian officials — calling them “smarter” and more “reasonable” than their predecessors, who were assassinated in the U.S. war — to try to reach…


Court: Vindictive prison transfer unconstitutional

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026

In a legal victory based on the constitutional right to due process, U.S. Federal Judge Timothy Kelly in Washington, D.C., blocked the Department of Justice from transferring 20 former death row prisoners to the only federal “supermax” prison in the…


Cuba’s doctors fight to counter the effects of US blockade

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026

A Russian-flagged tanker with 730,000 barrels of crude arrived in Cuba March 31. After nearly three months of imposing an across-the-board oil blockade on Cuba, President Donald Trump said his administration had “no problem” with the delivery of the Russian…