Rachele Fruit, right, SWP candidate for U.S. president, speaks to Kate McKinney, a Boeing structural mechanic, Oct. 5 on picket line in Everett, Washington. “Jewish people have been persecuted forever,” McKinney said, pointing to attacks on Jewish students at U.S. campuses.

Socialist Workers Party campaign says:

‘The working class needs to fight to take political power’

Fruit joins Boeing picket, builds support for strike SEATTLE — “We’re out here, not for me, but for my son” and other younger hires, Tom Brown, a striking Boeing worker told Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president,…

Working people need our own party, a party of labor

Dennis Richter, SWP candidate for vice president, right, joins in solidarity with Georgia Pacific strikers, members of ILWU Local 6, Oct. 7. From left: Raymond Domingue, Steve Moffett, Jimmie Arnold III and Jose Rivera. “We need our own party, a party of labor,” said Richter.

ANTIOCH, Calif. — “I’ll be getting out the word about your fight,” Socialist Workers Party vice presidential candidate Dennis Richter told Sheetrock workers on strike against Georgia Pacific here when he joined their picket line Oct. 7. The workers, members…

Boeing strikers solid in fight to improve wages, work conditions

“Going on strike is a sacrifice, but it’s worth it,” one Machinist told the Militant. Strikers greet other union members on picket line near Boeing factory in Everett, Washington, Sept. 15.

SEATTLE — Now in the fourth week of their strike against Boeing, one of the two major producers of commercial airplanes worldwide, picket lines by members of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District Lodge 751 remain up at…

Working people unite to take on social disaster from hurricane

In Swannanoa, North Carolina, neighbors come together to set up distribution center after Hurricane Helene. The First Baptist Church also handled aid. “It’s tough to see people you know personally who have lost their homes,” Melody Dowdy, the pastor’s wife, said.

Under capitalism, major storms like Hurricane Helene become social catastrophes. Over 225 people have been killed across six states, with the biggest toll in western North Carolina. And it’s unclear how many are still missing in isolated communities there. The…

Showdown looms in Middle East: Israel’s right and need to defend the safety of a refuge for Jews

School in Gedera, central Israel, was hit in Iranian missile barrage Oct. 1. Tehran orchestrated Hamas massacre of Jews one year ago on Oct. 7, the deadliest pogrom since the Nazi Holocaust.

As Israeli forces continue to deal significant blows to Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, tens of thousands gathered around the world to commemorate those murdered or taken hostage during the Tehran-backed Oct. 7, 2023, pogrom in Israel. They…

Prison authorities uphold ban on ‘Militant’ issue in Florida

After being forced to wait over a month, the Militant finally learned that the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee had once again upheld the ban on Militant issue no. 17 at Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone at its…

Dockworkers win 62% raise, pause strike till Jan. 15 for talks on jobs

International Longshoremen’s Association members on picket line in Seabrook, Texas, Oct. 2. After wage increase was won, the union extended old contract until Jan. 15, and workers returned to work while other key issues, including jobs and automation, are negotiated.

Large picket lines set up by thousands of striking dockworkers solidly shut down East and Gulf coast ports for three days, showing the power of organized labor in action. The United States Maritime Alliance, representing bosses at shipping lines and…

Also In This Issue

Editorials

On the Picket Line

Books of the Month

SWP’s founding program points road for workers to win power

25, 50 and 75 years ago

Features

As vote nears, Democrats push attacks on constitutional rights

Daniel Shays’ rebels are fired on by Massachusetts militiamen in 1787. Struggles by farmers and artisans coming out of First American Revolution and by working people of all skin colors during Civil War, Reconstruction, won constitutional protections that workers need today.

The fight for the White House between the bosses’ two major parties — the Democrats and Republicans — has entered its final month, with Kamala Harris, the liberal media and the Joseph Biden Justice Department escalating their frenetic claims that…

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.