Philippe Tessier, Communist League candidate for mayor of Saint Leonard, speaks in Montreal Aug. 9, with, from left, Kevin Dwire, SWP Minneapolis mayoral candidate; Katy LeRougetel, CL candidate for mayor of Montreal; Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for New Jersey governor.

Socialist Workers Party 2025 campaign

‘Fight for a workers gov’t to prevent another world war’

MONTREAL — Campaigning together here Aug. 8-9 were Katy LeRougetel, Communist League candidate for mayor of Montreal; Philippe Tessier, CL candidate for mayor of Saint Leonard; Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New Jersey; and Kevin Dwire,…

Ukraine resists Moscow’s war, Putin seeks help from Trump

Kateryna Troian, a legendary drone operator with over 1,000 successful strikes, was known by her call sign, “Meow.” She was killed by artillery fire near Pokrovsk, in eastern Ukraine, June 8.

In an effort to impose a settlement leading to the end of Moscow’s war in Ukraine, President Donald Trump announced that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin would meet in Alaska Aug. 15. While they talk, working people in Ukraine…

Editorial

Defend Israel’s battle to prevent a new Holocaust!

Defeat of Hamas is a decisive question!

It’s in the interests of all workers and the oppressed in the U.S. and worldwide to see the fight to dismantle Hamas carried through to the end. Another Holocaust was the stated aim of Hamas when it carried out its…

Amnesty, not prison, for immigrant workers in US! Unite the working class

Demonstrators at White House May 1 demand Kilmar Abrego García and other detained immigrant workers be freed. Placard on left says, “We honor and remember the Key Bridge families” of six immigrant workers killed when Baltimore bridge collapsed last year.

When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, he inherited from his predecessor, Democrat Joseph Biden, the largest immigration prison network in U.S. history. Trump immediately began taking steps to further expand it, claiming there were tens of…

As capitalist crisis deepens, getting a decent job becomes more difficult

Despite the hype by government officials that the U.S. economy is “booming,” pointing to the billions Washington is reaping from tariffs it’s imposing worldwide, facts show that’s not what working people see and face amid today’s mounting capitalist crisis. It’s…

Build support for Boeing strikers!

IAM Local 837 members on strike against Boeing join picket line in St. Louis Aug. 7. In center is Zac Boeger, Clyde Miller at right. They’re fighting for a pay raise for all, end to big wage gap.

ST. LOUIS — After twice rejecting contract proposals from Boeing, 3,200 members of the International Association of Machinists walked off the job here, and in St. Charles, Missouri; and Mascoutah, Illinois, Aug. 4. They are fighting to win a wage…

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On the Picket Line

Books of the Month

For Lenin’s internationalism, against Stalin’s counterrevolution!

25, 50 and 75 years ago

Letters

Features

Two workers killed in explosion at US Steel coke plant in Clairton

PITTSBURGH — Multiple explosions rocked the U.S. Steel plant in Clairton, 15 miles south of Pittsburgh, Aug. 11, killing two workers and sending 10 others to area hospitals. As of press time, five remain in critical condition. The blasts were…

SWP conference: Building a working-class party on Marxist foundations in the fight for workers power amid today’s capitalist crises and wars

Socialist Workers Party National Secretary Jack Barnes presents political report to June international party conference. With Barnes, from left are SWP leaders Paul Mailhot, Mary-Alice Waters and Steve Clark.

(first of two articles) OBERLIN, Ohio — “The Socialist Workers Party exists, born in class struggle.…

Build protests now to defend Cuba’s sovereignty! US hands off Cuba!

A Call to Action by the Socialist Workers Party

Right, 250,000 Cubans rally in front of U.S. Embassy in Havana May 22 to protest Washington’s indictment of Raúl Castro, a central leader of Cuba’s socialist revolution. Left, 100 people joined rally next day in Boston, among growing protests against U.S. war threats on Cuba.

The following statement was released May 26 by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers…

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…

SWP call to action: US hands off Cuba! End Washington’s economic blockade!

Left, Rachele Fruit, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate in Florida, joined Miami Coalition for End of the Blockade, others in Feb. 8 protest in Miami against U.S. rulers’ attacks on Cuba. Right, SWP joined Minnesota Cuba Committee, SCOTA, others in picket line in Minneapolis Feb. 9.

A Call to Action by the Socialist Workers Party The following statement was released February 7, 2026, by…

Condemn Washington’s attack on Venezuela’s sovereignty! US out now!

Statement issued Jan. 3 by National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party

Protest in Miami Jan. 3 against Washington’s violation of Venezuela’s national sovereignty with its bombing and special operations forces raid in Caracas that kidnapped country’s president.

The Socialist Workers Party condemns in the strongest possible terms Washington’s invasion of Venezuela and…

Defend Israel’s battle to prevent another Holocaust!
US troops, bases and warships out of the Mideast!

Iran’s working people are biggest curb on reactionary regime’s aims. Left, truck drivers during 11-day strike that ended June 2, largest nationwide workers’ action in decades. Right, Naama Levy, taken hostage in Oct. 7 pogrom by Hamas, whose roots go back to Nazis’ “Final Solution.”

Click below for printer-friendly pdf of this statement. Statement issued June 25 by the National Committee of…

‘There Is No Peace!’ — 1945 to world crises today: Socialist Workers Party points road forward

‘Working class needs to take power into our own hands’

“There Is No Peace!” That was the banner headline on the Aug. 18, 1945, issue of the Militant, featuring…

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…

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…

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…

‘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.