June 22 picket at Bath, Maine, shipyard. Strike is solid and winning solidarity from other unionists and workers in the region in face of company’s union-busting “last and final” offer.

Bath shipyard strike against union busting needs support!

In the largest labor conflict in the country, over 4,300 shipbuilding workers, members of Machinists Local S6, at the Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, continue to win support and solidarity from area unions and local businesses as their strike…

Workers fight boss attacks on jobs, wages, conditions

Workers’ problem today is crisis of capitalism, not a virus

Tens of thousands protest July 11 in Tel Aviv, Israel, against government’s failure to deliver aid promised to workers classified as self-employed. Sign reads, “Out of touch! We’re fed up!”

Speedup and dangerous working conditions enforced by bosses at Los Angeles Apparel and at nearby meatpacking plants highlight the employers contempt for workers’ safety and lives. Four workers at L.A. Apparel have recently died from coronavirus and over 300 working…

Socialist Workers Party statement

No worker has to die on the job! For workers control of production

Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, issued the following statement July 15. Malcolm Jarrett is the party’s candidate for vice president. A fight by workers and our unions to wrest control of production and safety from the bosses…

Help us put the Socialist Workers Party on the ballot!

From left, Gerardo Sánchez, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate from Texas; Haley Swims and Keri Tankersley, electors in Louisiana for SWP presidential ticket; and Rachele Fruit, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate from Georgia. “I really want to see the SWP on the ballot,” Tankersley said.

SHREVEPORT, La. — “After looking at the Militant, I really want to see the Socialist Workers Party on the ballot in Louisiana,” Keri Tankersley, a 24-year-old student in Monroe, an hour and a half east of here, told party campaigners.…

Join protests for prosecution of cops who killed Breonna Taylor!

June 27 protest in Louisville, Kentucky, demands cops who killed Breonna Taylor be arrested, charged.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — It’s been four months since Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency room technician, was killed in a hail of bullets by cops breaking into her apartment in a late night “no-knock” raid here. Outrage over her death has…

Defense of free speech, debate met with slander and threats of reprisal

A letter to Harper’s magazine by 150 writers and artists speaking out for freedom of speech and debate came under immediate attack by radical purveyors of political correctness who believe that the suppression of “improper” views is required today. The…

Also In This Issue

Books of the Month

Che: ‘Moncada attack was beginning of Cuba’s revolution’

25, 50 and 75 years ago

Corrections

Features

Columbus voyage to Americas opened door to social progress

‘Discovery of roads of the world was clouded by the enormous crime of conquest’

Folding-screen mural painted in 1976 by Mexican painter Roberto Cueva del Río depicts meeting between Aztec ruler Moctezuma II and Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés some 500 years ago.

Over the Fourth of July weekend, a statue of Italian-born seafarer Christopher Columbus, the first European to discover the Americas in 1492, was pulled down and thrown into the Baltimore harbor. Another, presented by Italian-Americans to the city of Waterbury,…

Scientific approach to opening of ‘New World’

Reproduction of a painting of Genoa, Italy, in 1597, by Cristoforo Grassi. Genoa was a key European port at the time of Columbus’ voyages. Opening of Americas paved the way for the rapid development of capitalism in Holland and England, while holding it back in Spain.

The approaching 500th anniversary of the European discovery of the Americas has given rise to a widespread debate on the significance of this event and the colonization of the continent which followed. In the accompanying interview Cuban minister of culture…

Forging a proletarian party in the class struggle today

Socialist Workers Party uses Marxist program and party’s experiences to set course

American Airlines flight attendants protest at Dallas-Fort Worth airport Sept. 5, 2023. There has been a renewal of fights and solidarity activity by workers, unionists in U.S.

“Every class struggle is a political struggle.” With that statement Jack Barnes, national secretary of…

The fight against Jew-hatred and pogroms in the imperialist epoch

Stakes for the international working class

Pogroms, yesterday and today. Top, Hamas parades Jewish man murdered by death squad Oct. 7 past cheering supporters in Gaza City. Massacre in southern Israel was deadliest single attack on Jews since Hitler’s “Final Solution.” Bottom, using what Bolshevik leader V.I. Lenin called “the most savage and furious methods,” tsarist-inspired pogromists in 1906 murdered 80 Jews in Belostok, in what is now Poland. Photo shows Jewish family after assault.

Below is the opening chapter by Socialist Workers Party leader Dave Prince of the new book, The Fight Against…

Defend Israel’s right to exist as refuge for Jews!
Condemn Jew-hating pogrom!

The record of the 'Militant' and the Socialist Workers Party

SWP campaign joined opponents of Jew-hatred in rally at University of California in Berkeley March 11 in defense of free speech, against shutdown of Jewish student meeting there Feb. 26.

Click on the links below to read news, opinion and background historical coverage of the events in Israel…

Opposing US ruling-class assaults on freedoms protected by the Constitution

Left, President Joseph Biden, speaking May 31 at the White House, called Donald Trump supporters “semi-fascists” and “MAGA Republicans” to justify targeting his constitutional rights. Trump was found guilty May 30 in politically concocted trial violating his Sixth Amendment right “to know the nature of the charges” and to an impartial jury. Yet Biden urged no one to criticize “our justice system.” Right, Florida, August 2022. Armed raid by Justice Department on Trump home in Mar-a-Lago, trampling protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. Under bourgeois regimes, “all suppression of political rights and freedom, no matter whom they’re directed against at the start, in the end inevitably bear down upon the working class,” communist leader Leon Trotsky said in 1939.

“Opposing US rulers’ assaults on freedoms protected by the Constitution and their use of the political…

‘A genuine revolution means leading the millions’

Class struggle in the US today, the Cuban Revolution and building a proletarian party

April 25 book presentation in Havana at headquarters of Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples. Inset, from left, Mary-Alice Waters; ICAP leader Noemí Rabaza, who chaired and spoke. In Cuba, Rabaza said, the government represents workers’ class interests not those of the capitalists. “What Noemí says is important,” Waters noted in discussion period. Cuba’s socialist revolution is a beacon worldwide and sets the example for working people in the U.S., too. “Alone we’ll be defeated. Fighting together, we can win,” Waters ended.

The following are the remarks by Mary-Alice Waters at an April 25 presentation in Havana of the book…

‘Cuban Revolution: a challenge to US imperialism’

Cuban representative speaks on US economic war, campaign of lies against socialist revolution

BY MARTÍN KOPPEL, MARY-ALICE WATERS, AND RÓGER CALERO NEW YORK — Carlos Fernández de Cossío, head of…

Cuba and Chernobyl

This Cuban documentary produced in 2006 tells the story of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine and Cuba’s exemplary internationalist medical program that treated more than 25,000 victims.