Join fight for amnesty for all immigrants in the US!

Unions need to lead to unify the working class
Vol. 90/No. 5 - February 9, 2026
Thousands rallied in Minneapolis Jan. 23, protesting gov’t attacks, deportations of immigrant workers. Area unions built and organized to help ensure it was a disciplined, peaceful action.

MINNEAPOLIS — Recent protests and other events unfolding in Minneapolis over the last week show both the potential for building a powerful and disciplined union-led movement to fight and win amnesty for those in the working class without papers, as…


Canada court rules gov’t use of Emergencies Act was illegal

Vol. 90/No. 5 - February 9, 2026
Police use pepper spray as they assault truckers and other protesters in Ottawa Feb. 19, 2022. Federal government used the Emergencies Act to attack free speech, right to protest.

MONTREAL — In an important and hard-fought victory for working people and defenders of political rights, Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal ruled Jan. 16 that the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s use of the draconian Emergencies Act to…



Who was the Shah, what was the 1979 revolution in Iran?

Vol. 90/No. 4 - February 2, 2026
Protest in Tehran against U.S.-backed Shah of Iran, Sept. 7, 1978. The next day Shah’s forces fired on the protesters, killing hundreds, in what became known as Black Friday.

The view presented by capitalist politicians and the bourgeois press — echoing the claims by Iran Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei — is that the bourgeois clerical regime in power in Iran today is the defender and continuity of the 1979…


‘Peace Board’ aims to advance US imperialism

Vol. 90/No. 4 - February 2, 2026

President Donald Trump has established what he calls a “Board of Peace” initially aimed at the Middle East, a region that is crucial for the U.S. imperialist rulers’ interests. He is now seeking to extend its authority over bloody conflicts…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 4 - February 2, 2026

January 29, 2001 HAVANA — “The Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution (ACRC) was created during the most difficult moment Cuba has yet seen,” Brig. Gen. Harry Villegas pointed out. The ACRC brings together in a single mass organization…


Amnesty for immigrants, to unify the working class!

Course of liberals, left poses obstacle to progress
Vol. 90/No. 4 - February 2, 2026
Broad, labor-supported rally in Minneapolis Jan. 10 against ICE assaults and mass deportations. Mass union action is needed to involve immigrant workers, fight to unify the working class.

MINNEAPOLIS — Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations targeting immigrant workers have escalated here. They’ve spread from the Twin Cities area to Rochester, Willmar, St. Cloud, Mankato, Alexandria, St. James, Fergus Falls, Pelican Rapids, Waite Park and Detroit Lakes. The assaults…


New York nurses’ strike is a battle for all of labor!

Vol. 90/No. 4 - February 2, 2026
Thousands of members of New York State Nurses Association have kept spirited picket lines up at 10 outlets of three major New York hospitals since Jan. 12, demanding adequate staffing, safe working conditions and decent health care benefits. Above, at Montefiore Hospital Jan. 19.

NEW YORK — Fifteen thousand nurses at three of New York City’s major hospital systems — Montefiore, Mount Sinai and New York-Presbyterian — entered their second week on strike here Jan. 19. The workers walked out at 10 locations on…


SWP campaign points road to fight imperialist drive to WW III

Vol. 90/No. 4 - February 2, 2026
Socialist Workers Party members Deborah Liatos, left, and Ellie Garcia, center, campaign with Militant, books by party leaders at Jan. 18 Los Angeles rally. Thousands came out in solidarity with mass demonstrations in Iran protesting the reactionary government in Tehran.

As the pace of Washington’s moves to assert its dominance in the Western Hemisphere and worldwide accelerates,  intensifying the war moves of its rivals in Europe and elsewhere, the stakes for working people are increasing. Washington’s Jan. 3 attack on…