SWP campaigns against gov’t attacks on immigrant workers

Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026

As protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ attacks, arrests and brutality against immigrants, and those who come out to support them, spread, growing numbers of unionists and others have looked to come to their aid. Socialist Workers Party members…


US rulers hate Cuba out of ‘fear of Latin American revolution’

Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026

As part of celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Fidel Castro, the central leader of Cuba’s socialist revolution, the Militant is printing excerpts of his political writings over the coming year. This one is from The Second Declaration…


After 4 crashes, 45 dead, Spain rail union calls three-day strike

Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026

A collision between two high-speed passenger trains in Andalusia, in southern Spain, Jan. 18 left 45 people dead and at least 150 injured. In the week after the disaster, three other crashes took place. The Spanish Railroad Engineers and Trainmen’s…


Court blocks gov’t move to revoke TPS for Haitians

Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026

On Feb. 2, federal Judge Ana Reyes blocked the Donald Trump administration from revoking Temporary Protected Status from some 350,000 Haitians in the U.S. This means they can stay and work here. In the last month a number of union-backed…



US HANDS OFF CUBA!
END WASHINGTON’S ECONOMIC BLOCKADE!

A Call to Action by the Socialist Workers Party
Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026

The following statement was released February 7, 2026, by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, on behalf of the party’s National Committee. There’s a pressing need today for a call to action by working people to oppose…



US workers face fewer jobs, high prices and tough times to come

Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026

The capitalist economic crisis continues to weigh heavily on the backs of working people despite upbeat reports from the White House and the business sections of the boss press.  It is true the capitalist rulers and their upper-middle-class hangers-on are…


Malcolm X aimed to wake people up to their own ‘self-worth’

Vol. 90/No. 6 - February 16, 2026
Malcolm X spoke to thousands at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama Feb. 3, 1965. Then SNCC Black rights fighters took the revolutionary leader to speak in Selma, where a sharp battle was raging.

To mark Black History Month, Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February features Malcolm X on Afro-American History by the most outstanding leader of the Black liberation struggle in the U.S. The book contains speeches and other selections from Malcolm…


Road to forging a fighting labor movement

Vol. 90/No. 5 - February 9, 2026

The defense of the millions of workers without papers is a front-line battle for all workers, which must be taken up and led by the unions. Because of the bosses’ insatiable need for labor, immigration has grown, and native-born and…