Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, speaks to press at Oct. 10 event at Miami’s Holocaust Memorial to condemn Hamas pogrom in Israel. SWP is part of decadeslong continuity of communist movement in fight against Jew-hatred, she said.

Rachele Fruit for president! The Socialist Workers Party campaign: the working-class alternative to Biden-Trump

Fight Jew-hatred! Defend Israel as refuge for Jews!

My campaign as Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, alongside SWP candidates around the country, presents a working-class alternative to Biden, Trump, Kennedy and all the capitalist candidates. We’re becoming known as the socialists who act against Jew-hatred and in…

Fruit campaign takes SWP program to working class

Pamela Holmes, right, Communist League parliamentary candidate for Tottenham, campaigns at March 17 protest by Russians in London against Vladimir Putin, his invasion of Ukraine.

Across the country, supporters of Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party 2024 candidate for president, are widely circulating the Militant carrying her working-class program. They’re discussing it with workers on their doorsteps, at plant gates, actions against Jew-hatred, in protests…

Capitalist rivalry worldwide fuels war in Sudan, crisis for toilers

A civil war has exploded once again over the past 11 months in the North African country of Sudan, pitting the official armed forces against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The clash for power has devastated the lives of millions…

Unions in Twin Cities build a coalition, take on boss attacks

MINNEAPOLIS — Five days of strikes and labor actions have culminated in a number of new contract agreements in the Twin Cities area, after a coalition of unions formed last October organized coordinated actions in March. Workers who clean office…

Crowds in Russia mount election day protest against Putin, war on Ukraine

Voters in St. Petersburg turn out for “Noon Against Putin” actions across Russia and around world March 17. Tens of thousands protested Russian President Putin, Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

Tens of thousands protested the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his two-year-old war against Ukraine as part of a “Noon Against Putin” mass action on March 17, the last day of Russia’s three-day presidential election. Actions took place…

Democrats’ drive to destroy Trump deals blows to constitutional rights

Recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings and scandals in a number of the court cases cooked up against Donald Trump have thrown Democrats into a furor, with the timing of a number of the trials of the former president now up…

Biden White House tells Israel: ‘Back off war against Hamas’

Food market in Nuseirat, central Gaza, March 18. Joseph Biden White House, liberal media echo exaggerations by Hamas apologists of widespread starvation in Gaza. Responsibility for crisis begins with Hamas Oct. 7 deadly pogrom, breaking years-long cease-fire with Israel.

The Joseph Biden White House and Democratic Party, while claiming to “support” Israel, are stepping up pressure on the Israeli government to end its military operations to dismantle Hamas. Echoing open supporters of Hamas’ Oct. 7 pogrom, they falsely accuse…

Also In This Issue

Editorials

For a labor party, based on the unions

On the Picket Line

Books of the Month

Che: Cuba’s socialist revolution shows way forward for humanity

25, 50 and 75 years ago

Features

Juan Almeida: Exemplary leader in Cuba’s socialist revolution

Leaders of July 26, 1953, attack on Cuban dictator’s Moncada military garrison, including, from left, Raúl Castro, Juan Almeida and Fidel Castro, leave Isle of Pines prison, May 15, 1955.

HAVANA — The life of Juan Almeida Bosque, a central leader of the Cuban Revolution for more than five decades, was highlighted at two events during the recent Havana International Book Fair here. They showed the revolutionary integrity, courage, discipline,…

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.