Working class responds to LA fires disaster with solidarity

Roger Dagoberto Cruz, left, a gutter installer, told Eric Simpson, SWP candidate for mayor of Oakland, that when work is slow he volunteers at the local job center to help others get work.

ALTADENA, Calif. — “Under capitalism, every time a disaster happens, the bosses and their politicians merely recreate the same conditions for it to happen again,” said Eric Simpson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Oakland mayor and a union factory worker,…


New US gov’t takes shape amid growing conflicts, wars

Since Donald Trump took office as president again Jan. 20, he has moved to advance his “Make America Great Again” nationalist agenda and, at the same time, to promote his pledge that his plans will mean a pro-worker White House.…




Join fight against Phoenix jail ban on the ‘Militant’!

Join our fight to overturn the unconstitutional ban of Militant issue no. 42 by authorities at the Lower Buckeye Jail in Phoenix — the largest detention facility in Arizona. Letters have been arriving at the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office from…

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Women workers keep Ukraine mines running as war continues

Tetiana Medvedenko, left, and Iryna Ostanko, both union members at coal mine near Ternivka, Ukraine. When men there volunteered for the army, for the first time women were hired.

As the third anniversary of Moscow’s Feb. 24, 2022, murderous war against Ukraine approaches, more and more of the country’s men have been called on to defend their country’s sovereignty, arms in hand. This has meant substantially greater numbers 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.