SWP exposed decades of FBI spying, political disruption

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026
Los Angeles SWP headquarters firebombed in May 1970, with four people inside, by counterrevolutionary Cubans with long history of working with FBI and CIA. Inset, SWP leader Syd Stapleton with 3,138 documents the FBI was forced to turn over as a result of the SWP lawsuit.

Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for June features Cointelpro: The FBI’s Secret War on Political Freedom by Nelson Blackstock. Much of what is known about this decadeslong political disruption program is the result of evidence forced into the light through…


SWP speaks for Puerto Rican independence at UN hearing

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026

Statement by Paul Mailhot, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New York, to the U.N. Special Committee on Decolonization annual hearing on the status of Puerto Rico June 22. Mailhot was one of nearly 60 people who spoke, the…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 23 - July 6, 2026

July 9, 2001 The Cuban government condemned the convictions in a U.S. court of five Cuban citizens on espionage and murder charges. The five, the statement says, were part of an operation to “discover and report on terrorist plans hatched…


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.…




New US indictment replays the frame-up of the Cuban 5

Vol. 90/No. 22 - June 8, 2026
Cuban Five in Havana, Dec. 20, 2014, celebrate their release from U.S. prisons. From left, Gerardo Hernández, Fernando González, Antonio Guerrero, René González and Ramón Labañino.

Washington’s April 23 indictment of Cuban revolutionary leader Raúl Castro and five Cuban air force pilots for “conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals” in the shoot down of two planes that invaded Cuban airspace in 1996 replays the frame-up that became…