Members of Teamsters Local 25 on strike against Republic Services and supporters picket in Peabody, Massachusetts, July 20. Workers are fighting for higher wages, improved conditions.

Build support for Teamsters out on strike at Republic!

BOSTON — “We risk our lives every day on the streets of Boston while the company gets rich,” Daniel Berrios told the Militant July 19. He was one of a dozen workers on the Teamsters picket line in the Roxbury…


Socialist Workers Party 2025 campaign

SWP supports, builds union fights, campaigns against deportations

Craig Honts, center, candidate for N.J. lieutenant governor, brought SWP campaign and working-class solidarity to Teamsters Local 25 picket at Republic Services in Massachusetts in July.

There is growing interest in the Socialist Workers Party and its candidates today, spurred by the party’s activities in support of labor battles and its working-class response to deepgoing shifts in world politics. It reflects workers’ increasing recognition that neither…


Israel seeks to defend Druze after attack by Syrian gov’t

July 21 demonstration by Druze in Majdal Shams, in Israeli-run Golan Heights, in solidarity with Druze in southern Syria who fought off attack by Syrian government-backed militias.

At the center of a recent deadly fight in southern Syria is the Syrian government’s attempt to impose its rule in the predominantly Druze region. This is in contrast to what is often presented in the capitalist press as long-simmering…


People in Kentucky town win fight to free youth from ICE jail

Some 200 people rally in Bowling Green, Kentucky, June 11, part of effort to win freedom for 18-year-old Ernesto Manuel-Andres, seized and detained by ICE. He won release June 25.

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — Over 100 people came out June 25 in this south-central Kentucky manufacturing center to welcome home 18-year-old Ernesto Manuel-Andres after he was released from detention in Louisiana by immigration authorities. The predominantly U.S.-born crowd cheered as…



Features

Temporary Protected Status restored for Haitians

MIAMI — Hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in the United States on TPS — Temporary Protected Status — who have been protected from deportation will now be allowed to remain until at least Feb. 3, 2026, with the right…




US out of the Middle East!

Several people were killed by Iranian missile strike in Beit Shemesh, Israel, March 1. Israel’s defensive war aims to prevent Tehran launching a nuclear Holocaust to wipe out Jews, Israel.
The following statement was released March 1, 2026, by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist…










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.