Help take ‘Militant’ campaign over top!

Vol. 90/No. 19 - May 18, 2026

As we go into the final week of campaigning in the international 2026 spring drive, members of the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom are organizing to go over the top in…


Support Israel’s fight against Tehran, Hamas, Hezbollah

Vol. 90/No. 19 - May 18, 2026

Well before Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, pogrom, the Militant explained working people must oppose Jew-hatred and why. Hamas, backed by the reactionary regime in Tehran, slaughtered 1,200 people in Israel that day because they were Jewish or worked side by…


Workers and farmers in Cuba proved socialist revolution is possible

Vol. 90/No. 19 - May 18, 2026
The Second Declaration of Havana, delivered by Fidel Castro, was adopted by mass assemblies of workers, peasants across Cuba. In Santiago de Cuba, above, 100,000 marched Feb. 10, 1962.

The First and Second Declarations of Havana: Manifestos of Revolutionary Struggle in the Americas adopted by the Cuban people is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. Between the 1960 and 1962 declarations, both given by Fidel Castro…


US hands off Cuba! Defend Cuban sovereignty!

Vol. 90/No. 19 - May 18, 2026

Protests are needed now in the U.S. and worldwide against suffocating new sanctions Washington has imposed on Cuba, and to demand an immediate end to the U.S. rulers’ oil blockade. These new measures intensify Washington’s relentless economic and political war…


25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 19 - May 18, 2026

May 14, 2001 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The decision of the U.S. Navy to resume its military exercises and bombings on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques has touched off protests in Puerto Rico, in the United States, and…


May Day actions back union battles, rights of immigrants

Protests point to potential to unify the working class
Vol. 90/No. 19 - May 18, 2026
Naomi Craine, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate, and Moises Cruz, supporter of Puerto Rican independence and Cuban Revolution, carry party’s banner in Chicago May Day march.

Hundreds of thousands of workers in the U.S. and around the world turned out for marches, rallies and other actions called by unions and others on May Day. In the U.S. many of the actions focused on the defense of…


4,000 hotel and restaurant workers on strike in Norway

Vol. 90/No. 19 - May 18, 2026

OSLO, Norway — Striking workers in the hotel and restaurant industry mobilized for the May Day march here. They are part of an expanding nationwide walkout by over 4,000 members of the Norwegian United Federation of Trade Unions and the…


Defend Cuba from stepped up attacks by Washington

Vol. 90/No. 19 - May 18, 2026

“Cuba is fully entitled to trade for fuel with any country, without restrictions, conditions, or questioning that contravene freedom of international trade,” Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said April 14. Rodríguez condemned the U.S. rulers’ economic strangulation of Cuba, intensified…



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…