‘No Kings’: scam to keep workers from breaking with bosses parties

Vol. 89/No. 40 - November 10, 2025
Unlike Democratic and Republican Party politicians, SWP candidates discuss the road forward for working people to take power into their own hands. From right, Norton Sandler, SWP candidate for governor of California; Eric Simpson, former mayoral candidate in Oakland.

A coalition of the Democratic Party, liberal groups and the middle-class left mounted 2,600 “No Kings” actions across the U.S. Oct. 18. They say President Donald Trump acts like a “king,” to portray his administration as fundamentally worse than any…



SWP campaign in Miami defends Cuban Revolution

Vol. 89/No. 40 - November 10, 2025

MIAMI — The Socialist Workers Party’s candidates for public office from California to New York, from Minneapolis to Miami, especially those on the ballot, are taking advantage of media interviews and candidate debates to win as broad a hearing as…


Spreading attacks against Jews are a threat to the working class

Vol. 89/No. 40 - November 10, 2025
Rami Glickstein, in hospital with head injuries, broken nose, after antisemitic attack in New York City Oct. 27. Hamas supporters seek to normalize Jew-hatred around the world.

Since Hamas’ murderous pogrom against Jews in Israel Oct. 7, 2023, and provocative Jew-hating mobilizations worldwide organized under the pretext of protesting Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza, attacks on Jews have spread. Rami Glickstein and his wife, Rivi Glickstein, were walking…


Georgia Teamsters win new contract at Republic Services

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025

CUMMING, Georgia — After 100 days on strike against the giant national waste hauling company Republic Services, some 30 Teamsters Local 728 members finally returned to work Oct. 16 after winning a new contract. They were the last group of…


‘Militant’ battles bans by prisons in Missouri, Kansas

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025

The Militant is fighting to reverse the banning of issues of the paper by the Lansing state prison in Kansas and of issue no. 28 by the Missouri Department of Corrections. What’s involved is a clear violation of prisoners’ constitutional…


US rulers step up war threats on Venezuela gov’t, toilers

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025
Helicopters on USS Iwo Jima in Caribbean Sept. 23. U.S. armada off Venezuela has blown up several boats, part of Washington’s drive to topple the government of Nicolás Maduro.

The Donald Trump administration is sharply escalating its threats against the government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. The combined military, political and economic pressure is also aimed at sending a message to other governments in Latin America and the Caribbean…


Mandela granddaughters in Israel: ‘People killed for being Jewish’

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025
Nelson Mandela’s granddaughters Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela (center) and Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway at aid site in Gaza during visit to Israel. “Seeing how families were murdered for simply being Jewish will stay with us forever,” Dlamini-Manaway said.

They were “glued to the television” Oct. 13 when Hamas released the hostages, Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway and Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela told the South African Jewish Report. Both are granddaughters of Nelson Mandela, the central leader of the fight that brought down apartheid…


British Columbia gov’t workers expand strike to almost 25,000

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — More than 1,600 members of the Professional Employees Association across the province have now joined striking BC Government Employees’ Union members on the picket line Oct. 16, bringing the total number of strikers to almost 25,000.…


Kaiser health care workers strike on West Coast, Hawaii

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025
More than 40,000 union health care workers struck Kaiser Permanente Oct. 14-19 in California, Oregon and Hawaii, over wages and safe staffing. Above, strikers in Harbor City, California.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Hundreds of Kaiser Permanente workers marched, chanted and picketed in front of Kaiser’s Oakland Medical Center here, part of a broader strike that lasted five days, Oct. 14-19. The strike here ended a day earlier than elsewhere.…