‘Militant’ steps up fight against bans in Florida prisons

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026

Support continues to build from unionists, civil liberties groups and others demanding authorities overturn the unconstitutional ban on six issues of the Militant in Florida prisons. On April 1 the paper received notice from the Florida Department of Corrections Literature…


Cuban women protest against US rulers’ assaults

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026
Cuban women protest against US rulers’ assaults

Hundreds of Cuban women, answering a call by the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), demonstrated at the Mariana Grajales Park in Havana April 7 in defense of Cuba’s socialist revolution and to demand an end to Washington’s blockade against the…


Hungarian voters reject Orban, Moscow, as capitalist crisis grows

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026
Election eve opposition rally in Hungary April 11. Voters overwhelmingly rejected Viktor Orban’s pro-Moscow ruling Fidesz party, as workers, youth look to end economic, social crisis.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party, in power for 16 years and backed by both the Kremlin and the Donald Trump White House, were heavily defeated in elections April 12. Peter Magyar’s moderate conservative Tisza party won…


Exhibit shows Japanese Americans’ internment during World War II

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026

“Am I an American or Am I Not?” is the title of a traveling exhibit currently on display at the public library in Temecula, California. It has been showing in big cities like Boston and small ones like Clarksdale, Mississippi,…


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…