Residents of Russian-occupied Kherson, Ukraine, April 27, protest Moscow’s sham referendum to create “people’s republic.” Russian troops fired tear gas, stun grenades against the crowd.

Defend Ukraine independence! All Russian troops out now!

For solidarity of Russian, Ukrainian workers against Putin’s war

The Russian regime of President Vladimir Putin is redirecting and attempting to step up efforts to crush the Ukrainian people’s tenacious resistance to its invasion. As Moscow’s forces center assaults on eastern Ukraine, they continue to unleash shelling, rocket and…

as I see it

No worker has to die! Young bakery worker killed on the job

Automatic Rolls bakery, in Clayton, North Carolina, where Bibiana Arellano Delabra, 22, inset, was killed April 16 working on a large mixing machine. Fight for union control of line speeds, crew sizes, schedule, training is needed to counter deadly effects of capitalists’ drive for profits.

CINCINNATI — A young woman’s life was cut short when she was killed on the job April 16. Bibiana Arellano Delabra, 22, was crushed to death while operating a large industrial mixing machine at nonunion Automatic Rolls of North Carolina…

‘Militant’ calls target week to step up drive for new readers

Vincent Auger shows Chantell Woods the Militant on her porch in Portland, Oregon, April 23.

Taking advantage of expanded opportunities to reach out with the Socialist Workers Party program, party members are organizing an international target week April 30 – May 8 to boost momentum in the nine-week drive to win 1,600 new readers to…

Fight for union at Amazon expands with vote at second warehouse in NY

Amazon Labor Union organizing committee members joined by other unions at April 24 rally on eve of voting on union representation at second Amazon warehouse in Staten Island.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — “I want people to be able to retire from here” instead of having to quit to find a job they can survive on, Amazon worker Michael Aguilar told a support rally for the Amazon Labor Union…

Thousands turn out as Havana Int’l Book Fair opens April 20

Participants check out book displays at the 30th annual Havana International Book Fair.

HAVANA — Thousands of people have visited the grounds of the colonial Spanish fortress of San Carlos de la Cabaña over the last five days, since the Havana International Book Fair opened at this historic site April 20. The 10-day…

36th anniversary of Chernobyl nuclear disaster marked amid Moscow’s war

April 26 event in Slavutych, Ukraine, on 36th anniversary of Chernobyl nuclear disaster. “Remember past, accept today’s challenges, believe in the bright future!” said nuclear union youth organization, while denouncing Moscow’s occupation, attacks on other nuclear plants.

Moscow’s war against Ukraine, and over the one-month-long occupation of Chernobyl, has brought renewed attention to the 1986 nuclear disaster there and its continuing effects. Russian troops occupied the site Feb. 24, the first day of the invasion, and a…

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End US sanctions! For working-class solidarity

On the Picket Line

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25, 50 and 75 years ago

Letters

Features

Family farmers in California face soaring prices, drought

Socialist Workers Party candidates Ellie García and Joel Britton visit Will Scott, right, on his Fresno, California, farm April 5 to discuss challenges facing small farmers from rising prices, Moscow’s war in Ukraine, and need for worker-farmer alliance to defend toilers’ livelihoods.

FRESNO, Calif. — Farmer Will Scott invited Socialist Workers Party candidates Ellie García and Joel Britton to his farm here April 5 to discuss how small farmers are affected by sharply rising prices, Moscow’s war in Ukraine and what workers…

Cuban working people defend socialist revolution at Bay of Pigs

Celebrating defeat of Washington’s Bay of Pigs invasion by 1,500 U.S.-organized mercenaries, April 1961, Cuban militiamen pose with wreckage of downed U.S. plane in fake Cuban colors. Fidel Castro said U.S. imperialists couldn’t forgive the workers and peasants of Cuba for “making a socialist revolution right under their very nose.”

Playa Girón/Bay of Pigs: Washington’s First Military Defeat in the Americas by Fidel Castro and José Ramón Fernández is being featured this week to mark the 61st anniversary of this historic event. In under 72 hours, April 17-20, 1961, Cuba’s…

Defend Israel’s right to exist as haven for Jews!
Condemn Jew-hating pogrom!
Call for cease-fire is support for Hamas

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…

Socialist Workers Party leadership sets course ahead

Adopts course to build union solidarity • defend constitutional freedoms • fight for wages, hours, job conditions that prevent families in working class from being torn apart • defend Cuba’s socialist revolution and its example in the U.S. and world over

International Educational Conference in Oberlin, Ohio, June 8-10, brought together over 330 people for reports, discussion on communist program, continuity and activities. Right, SWP literature table during conference.

OBERLIN, Ohio — “The sweeping indictment of Donald Trump under the Espionage Act by President Joseph…

‘A road forward to raise workers’ confidence in our own capacities’

Laura Garza, Socialist Workers Party 2024 candidate for U.S. Senate from California, speaks at closing panel.

OBERLIN, Ohio — The political report by Socialist Workers Party National Secretary Jack Barnes adopted by…

Demand Washington end its economic war on Cuba! Now!

SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY NATIONAL COMMITTEE STATEMENT

Crews repair electrical grid Sept. 30 in Pinar del Rió after Hurricane Ian. There is no better moment to explain the facts and win working people to oppose U.S. economic war on Cuba.

Click below for downloadable pdfs of this article in English or Spanish The following…

‘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…

Access to the Militant’s unique Ukraine coverage

The Militant’s coverage of Ukraine is unique. The paper defends the country’s right to…

Defend Ukraine’s independence!
For defeat of Moscow’s invasion!
US troops, nuclear arms out of Europe, all of Europe!

“No to war!” protesters chant in St. Petersburg Feb. 25. More than 7,000 have been arrested as tens of thousands joined actions in 54 Russian cities against Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

The following statement was issued March 3 by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers…

‘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.