US hands off Venezuela! US hands off of Cuba!

Vol. 83/No. 23 - June 10, 2019

Washington and the U.S.-backed opposition in Venezuela continue to press their campaign to oust the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, despite the failure of their April 30 coup attempt. Washington is stepping up its economic war on Venezuela —…


Thousands rally, demand women’s right to abortion!

‘Keep on marching, make our voices heard’
Vol. 83/No. 23 - June 10, 2019
May 21 Sacramento, Calif. Rallies to defend women’s right to abortion continue nationwide.

“We hoped for 20 and 200 people showed up,” Heather Bradford told David Rosenfeld, Socialist Workers Party candidate for St. Paul City Council, as they both joined a May 25 protest in Duluth, Minnesota, in support of women’s right to…


Rulers political crisis grows as UK workers say, ‘Get out of EU!’

Vol. 83/No. 23 - June 10, 2019

LONDON — Faced with fallout from repeated failed efforts to reach some agreement among the capitalist rulers’ fractured political parties over what to do about Brexit, Prime Minister Theresa May resigned as Conservative Party leader May 24. The resignation takes…


Over the top! ‘Militant’ goes over goals in paper, book, fund drives

Vol. 83/No. 23 - June 10, 2019
Socialist Workers Party campaigner Sergio Zambrana, right, talks with aerospace worker Kyle Miller at Miller’s doorstep in Peru, New York, April 27, about party’s program and activities.

Welcome to those of you who subscribed to the Militant  during the just-concluded drive to expand the readership of the paper, bought books by Socialist Workers Party leaders and other working-class fighters, and helped raise $115,000 for the Militant Fighting…


2019 version of Roosevelt New Deal no road forward for working people

Vol. 83/No. 23 - June 10, 2019

The “Green New Deal,” the project of Democratic Socialists of America member and liberal media darling House member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other young self-anointed progressives, that’s backed by at least five of the Democratic Party presidential hopefuls, claims to address…


Join fight against new censorship of ‘Militant’ in Florida prisons!

Vol. 83/No. 23 - June 10, 2019

Officials at the Florida State Prison and the New River Correctional Institution, both in Raiford, informed the Militant  May 28 that they had impounded two more issues of the working-class newsweekly. That brings to five the number of issues impounded…




SWP Active Workers Conference set for June 13-15

Vol. 83/No. 22 - June 3, 2019

“I want to go to the conference to meet workers who are excited and prepared for the struggles ahead. I’m excited for all the learning, of course — learning in community, across generations — there’s something so powerful about that,”…