United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts speaks to 200 miners, supporters in Brookwood, Alabama, Aug. 17. United Mine Workers have been on strike at Warrior Met since April 2021.

Striking coal miners: ‘We’ll stay out as long as it takes’

Union rejects $13.3 million fine levied by NLRB

BROOKWOOD, Ala. – “We’re not going to give in to Warrior Met,” striking United Mine Workers of America member Greg Pilkerton told the Militant as people were gathering for the union’s solidarity rally here Aug. 17. He is one of…

Victory! Federal Bureau of Prisons lifts ban on ‘Militant’ at Phoenix prison!

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

UPDATE The Militant was informed Sept. 1, after the latest issue had already gone to press, that prison authorities at the Federal Correctional Institution in Phoenix reversed the ban on issues no. 23 and 25. “Please be advised that the…

Democrats, FBI attack against Trump is threat to working class

Front page of Minneapolis paper, June, 1941, reports on FBI raid on SWP office, attacks on Teamster union, part of Roosevelt administration drive for intervention into second world war.

The Aug. 8 FBI armed raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate is the latest move by the President Joseph Biden administration, fellow Democrats and a coterie of Never-Trump Republicans in their over-six-year witch hunt — and is one of the…

It costs $300,000 to raise a child as inflation ravages workers’ families

As prices soar at the fastest rate in four decades, it now costs working-class families over $300,000 to raise each child. Back-to-school needs alone will cost $864 this year.

With prices rising at the fastest rate in more than four decades, the costs for food, housing, clothing, health care and child care continue to devour the meager resources of working people. According to the Brookings Institution, it now takes…

Protests in Puerto Rico demand gov’t cancel privatization, end power blackouts

Outrage and protests are growing in the U.S. colony of Puerto Rico in the face of repeated power blackouts one year after the government turned over control of the antiquated and decaying public electric grid to Luma Energy, a U.S.…

Defend Ukraine independence! Demand Moscow get out now!

Artist Yelena Osipova protests in St. Petersburg July 31, celebrated in Russia as Navy Day. “We died for peace,” placard says, referring to war against Nazi invasion. “No to War” in Ukraine!

Six months since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine, nothing has dimmed the courageous fight of the Ukrainian people to defend their country’s independence. The front lines haven’t moved in weeks. With no end to the death…

Also In This Issue

Editorials

Why we defend constitutional rights

On the Picket Line

25, 50 and 75 years ago

Features

Cuban women defend gains of revolution in face of US economic war, worldwide capitalist crisis

Child care center, Pinar del Río, June 2022. First such centers were set up in 1961 under leadership of Federation of Cuban Women to enable women to work and participate in the revolution.

BY MARTÍN KOPPEL, SETH GALINSKY AND MARY-ALICE WATERS NEW YORK — After more than two years of debate involving millions of Cubans, a nationwide referendum will be held Sept. 25 to vote “yes” or “no” on a new Families Code.…

‘The first program for women’s equality was the revolution’

UNITED NATIONS — “The first program for equality that Cuban women won was the revolution itself,” Teresa Amarelle, general secretary of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), told the Militant during an interview here in March. “The struggle isn’t over…

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.