Paul Mailhot, left, SWP candidate for mayor of New York, discusses politics with postal worker Hector Narvaez at National Association of Letter Carriers rally in Harlem Feb. 16.
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‘SWP’s aim is working-class road to taking political power’

‘More workers taking SWP seriously than I remember’ OAKLAND, Calif. — “The objective of the Socialist Workers Party is to present the working-class road to taking political power, to change which class rules,” Norton Sandler, the SWP candidate for governor…


SWP fights for NJ ballot: 650 signatures in 4 days!

“Workers appreciate Militant’s  defense of immigrants,” Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for governor of New Jersey, told forum April 5. Campaigners got 23 subscriptions over four days.

UNION CITY, N.J. — In the opening four days of the fight to get the Socialist Workers Party on the ballot in New Jersey, 650 signatures were gathered, as well as 23 subscriptions to the Militant and 24 books by…


8,000 day care workers strike, march on gov’t in Quebec City

QUEBEC CITY — Eight thousand striking day care workers from all corners of Quebec marched on the provincial legislature here April 3. Some 13,000 education workers and support staff overall, members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN), from…


Protests against Hamas open a door to a shift in Middle East

“Hamas is a terrorist organization!” chanted hundreds of protesters in Jabaliya in northern Gaza April 6. Courage of protesters shows openings for advances by toilers in the Middle East.

Israel’s new offensive in Gaza is aimed at decisively defeating Hamas to prevent it from organizing more murderous pogroms against Jews. Combined with the ongoing protests against Hamas by Palestinians in Gaza, this marks a turning point in the fight…



Deepening capitalist trade conflicts shake up imperialist world ‘order’

President Donald Trump’s tariffs, levied against capitalist competitors abroad, will “level the playing field for American industries and workers,” proclaimed White House spokesperson Kush Desai April 1. In the face of dog-eat-dog competition for natural resources and markets, the administration…


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Free trade or protection, workers go to the wall

As capitalism was displacing feudal rule, Karl Marx, the founder of the communist movement, delivered a “Speech on the Question of Free Trade” in Brussels in 1848. It’s invaluable for understanding why working people need to break from the capitalist…







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.