Ábrego García fight against deportation hits one-year mark

Vol. 90/No. 14 - April 13, 2026

WASHINGTON — March 12 marked one year since Kilmar Ábrego García, the 30-year-old Maryland union apprentice sheet metal worker, was picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and illegally deported to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT mega-prison days later. His wife,…


Capitalist rulers get richer as workers go to the wall today

Vol. 90/No. 14 - April 13, 2026
Graph shows soaring wealth for four layers of capitalist families, but not the working class.

The deepening worldwide capitalist economic crisis is bearing down hard on the working class, with decent jobs in the U.S. increasingly hard to find and prices for basic necessities continuing to rise, from groceries to electricity, housing, health care, child…


Court upholds gov’t move to bar bonds to immigrants

Vol. 90/No. 14 - April 13, 2026

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled March 25 to uphold a move by President Donald Trump’s administration that allows the government to detain workers without papers indefinitely. The ruling deals a blow to the constitutional due…


Indiana oil refinery workers locked out by BP stand strong

Vol. 90/No. 14 - April 13, 2026
Members of Steelworkers Local 7-1 in Whiting, Indiana, picket March 19 after 800 workers were locked out by BP. The union is united, determined to ovecome BP’s union-busting moves.

WHITING, Ind. — One week after being locked out at the British Petroleum’s refinery here, United Steelworkers Local 7-1 stands strong, committed to fighting against BP’s union-busting takeaway contract offer. Over 800 union members were locked out March 19 after…


Celebrate John Benson’s six decades building the SWP

Vol. 90/No. 13 - April 6, 2026

ATLANTA — John Benson, a longtime leader of the Socialist Workers Party, died here March 6 after a brief struggle with aggressive leukemia. He was 84 years old. Benson, speaking here at 2015 SWP conference, joined the Young Socialist Alliance…


Protest hits arson attack outside synagogue in London

Vol. 90/No. 13 - April 6, 2026

LONDON — “Stop the Jew hate” and “Jewish and proud” were among the slogans and signs at a spirited protest march and rally of hundreds of Jews and other opponents of Jew-hatred in Golders Green here March 23. They gathered…


Rally says: ‘Bring Miguel Lopez home to the US’

Vol. 90/No. 13 - April 6, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO — Sixty people rallied outside the Phillip Burton Federal Building here March 17 to demand the U.S. government return Miguel Lopez to the United States. Lopez was deported to Mexico June 7, 2025, just hours before U.S. District…


SWP on ballot in California! Next up is New Jersey

Vol. 90/No. 13 - April 6, 2026
Joanne Kuniansky, New Jersey SWP candidate for U.S. Senate, at March 8 picket to demand U.S. hands off Cuba.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Margaret Trowe, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of California, was informed March 21 that she will be on the ballot this June. Supporters of the campaign collected well over the 65 signatures of registered voters required…


End US war in Mideast! Bring troops home now!

Vol. 90/No. 13 - April 6, 2026
Defying the Iranian regime, over 100 people joined funeral for Saleh Mohammadi, executed by the government March 18 for participating in January anti-regime protests in Qom. Despite ongoing repression, war conditions, working people continue to find ways to protest.

“We are getting very close to meeting our objectives” and ending the fighting, President Donald Trump claimed March 20, but then ordered another 2,500 Marines to the Middle East. This is on top of the 2,500 Marines sent the week…