Israelis fight a defensive war against Hamas, attacks in UN

At the center of the debates swirling around the annual United Nations General Assembly are competing attempts by all the imperialist powers and other ruling classes to end or obstruct Israel’s defensive war against Hamas. Each power hopes to get…


Drive to expand reach of SWP, ‘Militant’ is off and running

‘Workers need to take political power’
Kevin Dwire, center, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Minneapolis mayor, after speaking at League of Women Voters debate Sept. 9. The working class needs its own party, he said.

Members of the Socialist Workers Party kicked off the party’s fall propaganda campaign and fund drive Sept. 20. They’re presenting the SWP’s response to events in world politics to fellow workers and inviting them to join with the party in…





Canada ‘hate’ law threatens freedom of speech, unions

Hospital workers demonstrate in Ottawa Sept. 9 demanding City Council drop plan for “bubble-zone” law that would criminalize their right to protest outside hospitals. Canadian government’s proposed new “anti-hate” law is attack on free speech aimed at workers, unions.

MONTREAL — In a new and far-reaching attack on democratic freedoms, the Liberal federal government of Mark Carney has introduced in Parliament a so-called Combatting Hate Act. The proposed law makes a crime of any conduct “with the intent to…

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UK rail union protests gov’t threat to deport unionists

LONDON — A hundred people joined a Sept. 17 protest here called by the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers union and backed by other unions against changes made by the Labour government to visa-eligibility requirements. This poses the threat of…




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.