Join fight to end ‘Militant’ ban in Missouri prison

Vol. 89/No. 41 - November 17, 2025

The Militant is stepping up efforts to win support to reverse the impoundment of the paper by prison authorities in Missouri. The ban is a blatant violation of the constitutional rights of prisoners to receive and read a political newspaper…


Alberta students walk out in support of teachers’ fight

Vol. 89/No. 41 - November 17, 2025
Students organized a rally in Edmonton, Alberta, Oct. 27 voicing support for their striking teachers, who were forced back to work two days later by government strikebreaking law.

MONTREAL — On Oct. 30, one day after 51,000 striking Alberta teachers returned to work under a government strikebreaking order, thousands of high school students walked out of classes in over 70 schools throughout the province to support the teachers.…


Prisoners off death row protest transfer to supermax lockup

Vol. 89/No. 41 - November 17, 2025

At the end of his term as president, Joseph Biden commuted the death sentences hanging over 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row. Donald Trump’s Justice Department transferred eight of the 37 to a facility notorious for its…


Lessons from 1930s for the fight against fascism and war today

Vol. 89/No. 41 - November 17, 2025
Working-class militia in Aragón, Spain, March 1937, during Spanish civil war. Stalinist-led Popular Front government subordinated mass worker and peasant movement to interests of “progressive” capitalists, sabotaged fight against fascists, leading to defeat of the revolution.

As the crisis of capitalism deepens and sharpening trade conflicts and disputes over markets and resources grow, ruling imperialist governments are looking to build their military forces, search for allies and prepare for wider wars. What can working people do…



Havana festival highlights Fidel Castro’s leadership

Vol. 89/No. 40 - November 10, 2025
March in Havana by 50,000, including unionists and members of student and women’s organizations, on Oct. 17 to defend sovereignty of Venezuela in face of growing war threats by Washington.

HAVANA — A festival was held here Oct. 17-19 celebrating the 60th anniversary of Cuba’s two daily newspapers, Granma and Juventud Rebelde. Visitors to the event, called the Granma-Rebelde Festival, browsed publications on display at booths representing a range of…


The working class needs to take political power!

Vol. 89/No. 40 - November 10, 2025
SWP campaign rally in New Jersey. From left, Craig Honts, SWP candidate for N.J. lieutenant governor; Joanne Kuniansky, for governor; Paul Mailhot, for mayor of New York City.

Mamdani aims to suck workers back into the Democratic Party NEW YORK — Amid growing national and international attention focused on the 2025 New York City elections, there’s only one candidate for mayor offering a working-class road forward, that’s Paul…


The place of the Jewish question in the imperialist epoch

Vol. 89/No. 40 - November 10, 2025
Some 50,000 workers responded to call by Socialist Workers Party to protest fascist meeting of 20,000 in New York, Feb. 20, 1939. A key lesson of fight by SWP, Minneapolis Teamsters against bosses and Nazi thugs was unions need to champion the struggle against Jew-hatred.

The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation by Abram Leon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. As the imperialist slaughter of World War II and of the Nazi Holocaust were unfolding, Leon wrote the book to explain…