“Working people need to run society,” Kevin Dwire, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Minneapolis, told Nedifa when he knocked on her door March 8. “I agree,” she replied. “It’s great you’re going around speaking with people face to face about things like this.”

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Help expand the reach of the 2025 SWP candidates, ‘Militant,’ books by SWP leaders and ‘Militant’ fund

There is a revolutionary working-class voice in the 2025 elections. The Socialist Workers Party is launching a spring campaign to introduce its national slate of 2025 candidates, expand the reach of the Militant and books by SWP leaders and other…

High prices keep grinding away at the working class

Soaring prices for some groceries and persistently high prices for everything at the store continue to squeeze the conditions of life for working people, every time they have to stop by the supermarket to get goods. While monthly price rises…

Jews and Israel face continuing threats from Hamas, Tehran

Jabalia, Gaza, Feb. 21. Hamas’ placement of its tunnels, command centers and weapons caches underneath residences, schools, mosques and hospitals is responsible for destruction in Gaza. “We’ve had enough of what Hamas put us through,” one Gaza resident said.

Both Hamas and Tehran are using the unstable ceasefire in Gaza to try to recover from the blows Israel has dealt them and to advance their long-term aim of destroying Israel and all the Jews there. Some 17 months after…

Build solidarity with strike by over 6,000 school workers in Alberta

School support workers in Alberta, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, on picket line March 4. They are fighting for higher wages after four years without a new contract.

EDMONTON, Alberta — Over 6,600 school workers, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, are on strike across Alberta for higher wages. The workers include educational assistants, cafeteria workers, librarians, administrative office workers and custodians. “Many of us have…

Rulers in Germany go ‘from welfare to warfare’ as capitalist crisis deepens

Germany’s imperialist rulers are making a sharp shift to boost preparations for war — and to kick-start their floundering economy — with a historic debt deal. Their goal was captured in a Financial Times headline, “From a welfare state to…

ACLU joins fight to overturn ban on the ‘Militant’ in Florida prisons

Florida state prison authorities informed the Militant that the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee would hold an initial hearing March 6 to discuss the impoundment of the Militant’s Jan. 20, 2025, issue at the Santa Rosa Correctional Institution…

Also In This Issue

On the Picket Line

Books of the Month

US rulers lost the Cold War, spurring world disorder, new wars

25, 50 and 75 years ago

Features

‘Fight for women’s equality is part of battle on world scale to settle which class will rule’

‘Cosmetics, Fashion, and the Exploitation of Women’ presented at Havana book fair

Feb. 18 panel at 2025 Havana International Book Fair presents Cosmetics, Fashion, and the Exploitation of Women by Socialist Workers Party leaders Joseph Hansen, Evelyn Reed and Mary-Alice Waters. From left, Esther Pérez, translator of Spanish edition, Waters and Pathfinder Press staff editor Martín Koppel.

Below are remarks given by Mary-Alice Waters on Feb. 18 during the 2025 Havana International Book Fair to present Cosmetics, Fashion, and the Exploitation of Women by Joseph Hansen, Evelyn Reed, and Waters (see news article here). Waters is a…

Lively exchange at Havana book launch

Audience member joins discussion at presentation of Cosmetics, Fashion, and the Exploitation of Women at Havana International Book Fair March 18. Foreground, Gen. Teté Puebla and Commander Víctor Dreke.

HAVANA — “How do capitalism’s cosmetics and fashion ‘industries’ play on the emotional, sexual and economic insecurities of women and adolescents to generate profits?” That question was at the heart of a lively exchange here among panelists and audience members…

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.