Fight deportations, win amnesty for immigrants

Vol. 89/No. 44 - December 8, 2025

Washington’s escalating immigration raids and deportations are a serious threat to working people and the unions today. They seek to divide the working class into two camps: workers born in the U.S. and others born abroad. The goal of the…


Cuba’s historic role in defeat of South Africa invasion of Angola

Vol. 89/No. 44 - December 8, 2025
Cuban, Angolan fighters celebrate, May 1988. Cuba’s 16-year internationalist volunteer mission helped defeat U.S.-backed South African invasion, strengthened Cuba’s socialist revolution.

This November marked the 50th anniversary of the beginning of revolutionary Cuba’s internationalist mission known as Operation Carlota, in which 425,000 volunteers served for 16 years in Angola in support of that country’s defense of its newly won independence. Portugal…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 44 - December 8, 2025

December 4, 2000 MONTREAL — After tying up the port for 28 days and defying government back-to-work legislation for 17 of those days, truckers at the Port of Montreal voted Nov. 19 to accept an agreement with the provincial government…



Back SEIU leader David Huerta, charged for joining protest against raid

Vol. 89/No. 44 - December 8, 2025

LOS ANGELES — “These charges are baseless, they are attempting to silence anyone who dares to speak out, organize or demand justice,” union leader David Huerta told the press after pleading not guilty at his arraignment in federal court here…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 43 - December 1, 2025

November 27, 2000 HAVANA — The Second World Conference of Friendship and Solidarity with Cuba opened Nov. 10 with more than 4,000 in attendance from 117 countries. Hundreds of organizations are represented, including solidarity organizations, trade unions, peasant organizations and…


‘Working class needs its own party, a road to take power

SWP ‘Militant,’ books, fund drive go over the top!
Vol. 89/No. 43 - December 1, 2025
SWP member Tony Lane met Mandalynn Baird on her doorstep in Moundsville, West Virginia, Nov. 16. He explained why the working class needs to take political power. “That sounds right,” Baird said. “But how do we get there?” she asked as she subscribed to the Militant.

OAKLAND, Calif. — The Socialist Workers Party successfully completed the party’s eight-week fall campaign to win 1,300 new Militant subscribers and sell the same number of books by SWP leaders and other revolutionary fighters Nov. 18. Members of the Communist…


US rulers push to deepen their domination in Latin America

Vol. 89/No. 43 - December 1, 2025
Fifty thousand demonstrated in Havana in solidarity with the people of Venezuela Oct. 17. Along with targeting government in Caracas, U.S. rulers look to attack the Cuban Revolution.

As a U.S. naval strike group led by the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest and most advanced warship, entered the Caribbean Sea, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth further heightened tensions in the region by announcing Operation Southern Spear…


Israel looks for way to destroy Hamas, faces US resistance

Vol. 89/No. 43 - December 1, 2025
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, center, at U.S.-run Civil-Military Coordination Center in Israel Oct. 24. Center’s main goal is to advance the U.S. imperialist rulers’ interests in the Middle East. Key to this for Washington is restraining Israel from continued efforts to destroy Hamas.

Hamas is purchasing and storing advanced weapons abroad for use in future pogroms against Jews. It has no intention of accepting the U.S.-imposed “peace” deal, ceding its armed control over Gaza. And it has not backed off its goal of…