New Jersey SWP campaign nears goal in ballot drive

Vol. 90/No. 17 - May 4, 2026
Craig Honts, SWP candidate for Congress, with Juan and Heidy Constanza in South Plainfield. “There’s nothing in the U.S. war on Iran for us,” Juan said. They signed to put SWP on ballot.

UNION CITY,  N.J. — Washington’s wars are part of “a deliberate course to advance the bipartisan state policy of the U.S. ruling capitalist families,” Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey, told participants at an…


End Washington’s war for plunder in the Middle East

Bring troops, bombers, warships home now!
Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026
USS Abraham Lincoln, above right, leads one of three U.S. carrier strike groups in Middle East as Washington blockades boats from Iran’s ports, threatens escalation, seeks new negotiations.

The Donald Trump administration is alternating between arrogant threats to restart bombing and flattery of current Iranian officials — calling them “smarter” and more “reasonable” than their predecessors, who were assassinated in the U.S. war — to try to reach…


Court: Vindictive prison transfer unconstitutional

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026

In a legal victory based on the constitutional right to due process, U.S. Federal Judge Timothy Kelly in Washington, D.C., blocked the Department of Justice from transferring 20 former death row prisoners to the only federal “supermax” prison in the…


Cuba’s doctors fight to counter the effects of US blockade

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026

A Russian-flagged tanker with 730,000 barrels of crude arrived in Cuba March 31. After nearly three months of imposing an across-the-board oil blockade on Cuba, President Donald Trump said his administration had “no problem” with the delivery of the Russian…



JBS strike wins better contract, stronger union in Colorado

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026
March 25 picket line of workers originally from Mexico and Cuba during three-week strike by 3,800 meatpacking workers, members of UFCW Local 7, at JBS plant in Greeley, Colorado.

United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 members who work at the JBS flagship beef slaughterhouse in Greeley, Colorado, voted to ratify an improved new two-year contract by 93% April 12. UFCW Local 7 President Kim Cordova said in a…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 16 - April 27, 2026

April 23, 2001 HAVANA — “The antiaircraft gunners who fought at Playa Girón were almost all 15, 16, 17 years old. At 22, I was one of the oldest,” said Enrique Dorta, a colonel in Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces, who…




‘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…