Los Angeles meeting reports on Cuba solidarity trip

Vol. 90/No. 20 - May 25, 2026

WILMINGTON, Calif. — More than 40 people gathered at the Machinists union hall here May 9 for a “No war on Cuba!” emergency speak-out. The event also drew attendees joining in online. It was organized to oppose Washington’s oil blockade,…



‘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…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 20 - May 25, 2026

May 21, 2001 Immigrant workers are taking an increasingly important part in fighting for the unity of the working class. In face of the brutality of the capitalist rulers and their stepped-up harassment of immigrants, immigrant workers are taking the…


SWP, ‘Militant’ get strong hearing at national actions

Vol. 90/No. 19 - May 18, 2026
“Building unions is key,” Michale Lawal told Communist League member Julie Crawford in London May 3. He got a Militant subscription, made contribution to the Militant Fighting Fund.

Samuel Nava, a farmworker for more than 20 years and now a landscape designer, met Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate, at the May Day action of 250 people in Coral Gables, Florida. Agricultural workers came on…


Crisis facing working-class families grows as prices soar

Vol. 90/No. 19 - May 18, 2026

Working-class households are being hit hard by the deepening crisis of capitalism today, squeezed by the lack of a good-paying job as well as high prices for basic necessities, from groceries to electricity, healthcare, housing, car payments, fertilizer for family…


US forces out of the Middle East!
Bring the troops back home now!

Vol. 90/No. 19 - May 18, 2026
World’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford, in Mediterranean Sea March 22. U.S. Navy says its “warfighting effectiveness, lethality” is to defend U.S. rulers’ “interests in the region.”

Uncertainty about what will happen next in the Strait of Hormuz and in Washington’s war on Iran continues against a backdrop of deepening rivalry and shifting alliances between capitalist powers worldwide, each looking to defend their own conflicting interests. The…



Unions joining Ottawa, bosses in trade war ‘team’ is a deadly trap

Vol. 90/No. 19 - May 18, 2026
After Ottawa used anti-labor laws to block three major union strikes, 10,000 flight attendants at Air Canada defied government back-to-work order Aug. 16, 2025, and won important gains.

MONTREAL — Canada’s ruling rich and their government in Ottawa are calling on workers and our unions to support and collaborate in their trade war with Washington. But this class-collaborationist course is a deadly threat to the labor movement and…