April 12 rally in Slavutych, where Chernobyl workers live, in solidarity with fellow workers resisting Russian occupation of Energodar, Ukraine, home of largest nuclear plant in Europe.

Moscow’s troops out of all of Ukraine now!

Defend Ukraine independence, sovereignty!

Attempting to reverse a series of embarrassing setbacks in his effort to crush independent Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an offensive April 18 in the eastern part of the country closest to Russia. He coupled the drive in Donetsk…

Miners strike passes 1-year mark, wins new solidarity

Warrior Met miners strike rally, McCalla, Alabama, April 6.

ATLANTA — Opportunities to build solidarity for the 1,100 members of United Mine Workers of America on strike for over a year at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, are growing. The April 6 solidarity rally near the mine that…

‘Militant’ builds strike support, protests Putin’s war in Ukraine

James Harris, SWP candidate for Washington, D.C., mayor, right, talks with Howard University student Imani Hutchinson at April 11 rally supporting one-day strike by D.C. Nurses Association.

The Socialist Workers Party is campaigning, using the Militant to get out its program, and seeking to put its candidates in New Jersey on the ballot. The drive got off to a solid start April 17. The party is running…

Protests spread worldwide as soaring prices devastate workers and farmers

Protests in Tirana, Albania, March 14 over soaring prices, exacerbated by Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. “Really baby!?” says sign, after Albanian president admitted, “We are in crisis.”

Over the last month, tens of thousands of working people have taken to the streets demanding government action to curb the devastating impact of soaring prices in Iran, Albania, Peru, Sri Lanka, Sudan and elsewhere. They refuse to accept that…

Marchers: ‘Indict Grand Rapids cop who shot Patrick Lyoya in the head’

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Daily protests have taken place here since April 12, when police released a video showing the fatal shooting of unarmed Patrick Lyoya by a Grand Rapids cop following a traffic stop. Lyoya, 26, worked in an…

Prime Minister of Pakistan toppled amid shifts caused by Moscow’s war

Economic turmoil and political conflicts are rising across Asia in the wake of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, as governments seek the best course to defend their interests in a shifting world. Alongside the rulers of China and India, the capitalist…

Also In This Issue

Editorials

Join in charting new course for working class

On the Picket Line

Books of the Month

Marxism, historical materialism help arm working-class fighters

25, 50 and 75 years ago

Features

Writer’s life converged with fighters organizing to build a revolutionary workers party in Iran

Reza Baraheni: poet, novelist, champion of cultural and political freedom

Reza Baraheni speaking at 1976 Committee for Artistic and Intellectual Freedom in Iran event at Southern Illinois University. CAIFI — launched in 1973 at initiative of Iranian students in U.S. and Socialist Workers Party leaders — helped win Baraheni’s freedom after 102 days of jail and torture by shah’s regime.

Reza Baraheni, a world-renowned leader in the fight for political and artistic freedom in Iran, died in Toronto March 24 at age 86. He was among that country’s most prominent poets, novelists and literary critics of the last half century.…

George Novack: SWP leader, defender of political rights

George Novack, left, led many successful defense campaigns over decades. Above, Novack with James Kutcher, the “legless veteran,” sacked from federal job in 1948 for being SWP member.

When Socialist Workers Party leader George Novack joined in initiating the Committee for Artistic and Intellectual Freedom in Iran (CAIFI) in 1973, he brought along decades of leadership experience in revolutionary working-class politics and defense campaigns. In the 1940s he…

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.