Protest demands action from gov’t after stabbings of Jews

Vol. 90/No. 20 - May 25, 2026

LONDON — Thousands gathered outside the prime minister’s office at No. 10 Downing Street May 10 in response to a call by Jewish organizations and other opponents of antisemitism to show their determination to fight escalating Jew-hatred in the U.K.…


Moscow’s war threatens a new nuclear disaster at Chernobyl

Vol. 90/No. 20 - May 25, 2026
April 26, 1989, rally in Chernobyl, Ukraine, on third anniversary of nuclear meltdown. Signs say, “Down with secrets of Chernobyl!” and ask “Who is responsible?” These protests grew, joining with other struggles to forge Ukrainian independence movement.

On April 26, 1986, an explosion and a 10-day fire destroyed reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, unleashing the world’s worst nuclear catastrophe to date. The bureaucratic Stalinist regime in…


Cuba’s people stand against escalating new US sanctions

Vol. 90/No. 20 - May 25, 2026
Solar-powered charging station, or “solinera,” in Santa Clara, Cuba, the first of its kind in the country, provides free power to workers facing blackouts caused by Washington’s oil blockade.

While millions of people in Cuba demonstrated in defense of the country’s sovereignty and socialist revolution May 1, the U.S. capitalist rulers imposed a new round of punishing sanctions, intensifying their efforts to topple the government. President Donald Trump’s administration…


‘Militant,’ books, spring fund all are over the top!

Vol. 90/No. 20 - May 25, 2026
Margaret Trowe, SWP candidate for California governor, with strikers on picket line at JBS plant in Greeley, Colorado, April 2. The SWP uses Militant, its campaigns to support union fights.

Members of the Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom brought home May 12 the eight-week spring campaign to win 1,300 Militant subscriptions and sell the same number of books by SWP leaders and…


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…