Why are the US rulers out to take over Greenland?

Vol. 90/No. 5 - February 9, 2026

President Donald Trump is seeking to expand the military reach of the U.S. rulers in the Arctic by taking control of key locations in Greenland. Washington is preparing for more and deadlier wars to come, reasserting its domination across the…


Despite brutal repression, Iran’s toilers find ways to renew protests

Vol. 90/No. 5 - February 9, 2026
More than 1,000 people attend Jan. 11 funeral for teenager Alireza Seydi in Abdanan in Iran’s Ilam province, one of thousands massacred by the regime just days before. Unions, oppressed nationalities refuse to be cowed. They are demanding regime release all political prisoners.

More information is coming out about the number of protesters slaughtered by the bourgeois-clerical regime in Iran Jan. 8-9. The Human Rights Activists News Agency has confirmed 5,459 deaths and is investigating 17,000 more. Two Iranian health ministry officials told…


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…



Miami Haitians mark disaster of 2010 earthquake, fight to keep TPS

Vol. 90/No. 4 - February 2, 2026

MIAMI — With federal authorities having slated Feb. 3 for the end of Temporary Protected Status for Haitian immigrants, they and their supporters have organized a number of actions to fight for extension of legal status in the U.S. The…


Brutal repression in Iran covers up truth – regime is weaker than ever

Vol. 90/No. 4 - February 2, 2026
Mourners chant anti-regime slogans at Jan. 19 funeral at Tehran cemetery for 21-year-old Ahmad Khoravani. He was one of thousands of protesters killed by regime’s thugs Jan. 8-10.

Due to the government’s blackout of internet and cellphone services, it’s still unknown how many people in Iran were massacred by the reactionary bourgeois clerical regime Jan. 8-10. One government official told Reuters at least 4,500 protesters had been killed.…