Armed Secret Service agents during FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida, Aug. 8. Raid, Democrats’ witch hunt against Trump, are a threat to constitutional protections against the bosses’ state, rights working people need.

Raid on ex-President Trump is attack on constitutional rights

Sharp shift in political crisis of capitalist rulers

In a sweeping attack on constitutional rights, the Joe Biden administration ordered a pre-dawn raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, carried out by 30 or more heavily armed FBI and Secret Service agents. During the nine-hour…

‘You’re on the ballot!’ SWP is on in Pennsylvania

Chris Hoeppner, SWP candidate for U.S. Congress in Pennsylvania’s 3rd District, left, turns in nominating petitions July 27. Party prepared for fight after state official changed requirements. “You’re on the ballot! And good luck!” SWP attorney Larry Otter, right, told Hoeppner Aug. 9.

PHILADELPHIA — “You’re on the ballot! And good luck!” Larry Otter, the Socialist Workers Party’s lawyer in Pennsylvania, told Chris Hoeppner, the SWP candidate for U.S. Congress from the 3rd District, and the Militant Aug. 9. “Despite moves by state…

Defend Ukraine independence! Protest, demand Moscow get out

Wall of Sorrow, above, is Moscow monument unveiled in 2017 to remember victims of Stalinist terror. Action against Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine there July 24, marking fifth month of war, was halted by arrests of protesters arriving with flowers, unfurling signs. Pro-regime provocateurs backed cops and taunted protesters. Inset, sign says, “No to war in Ukraine.”

Nearly six months after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a war to snuff out Ukraine’s independence and subjugate its people, Moscow’s offensive has largely stalled in the face of resolute Ukrainian resistance. Despite this, the Kremlin continues to unleash murderous…

Back Warrior Met strikers! Demand $13.3 million fine be thrown out!

Miners picket Warrior Met in Brookwood, Alabama, in 2021. NLRB ruling, huge fine “is a slap in the face to every worker who stands up to their boss,” said UMWA President Cecil Roberts.

BROOKWOOD, Ala. — In a calculated attack on workers’ right to strike, the National Labor Relations Board Region 10 on Aug. 2 ordered the United Mine Workers of America to pay $13.3 million to Brookwood-based Warrior Met Coal, where hundreds…

Join ‘Militant’ in fight to overturn ban in Arizona federal prison!

For more than 50 years, inmates in federal prisons have subscribed to the Militant with little interference by prison authorities. But in a serious threat to constitutional rights to free speech and freedom of the press, the warden at…

Kansas vote shows Dobbs decision led to needed debate on women’s rights

Bakery workers union members won broad solidarity in their three-week strike against forced overtime, for better wages at Frito-Lay in Topeka, Kansas, in 2021. Karl Marx said that unions need to become organizing centers for the emancipation of the whole working class.

By a significant margin in a statewide referendum Aug. 2, voters in Kansas rejected an amendment to the state Constitution that would have made it read it “does not create or secure a right to abortion.” Hundreds of thousands voted…

Also In This Issue

Editorials

No to Democrats’ assaults on constitutional rights!

On the Picket Line

Books of the Month

Mass anti-Vietnam War protests changed face of US politics

25, 50 and 75 years ago

Letters

Features

Steps to strengthen the communist movement in the Pacific

Communist League cadres in the Pacific region have moved to consolidate forces in Australia to strengthen and expand the reach of the communist movement throughout the region. Plans were celebrated at July 23 Sydney meeting, above, and at Sept. 24 meeting in Auckland.

SYDNEY — In a major step forward the Communist Leagues in New Zealand and Australia have decided to combine their forces to build one Communist League, based in Australia with its headquarters in Sydney. The decision will enable the party…

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.