John Hawkins, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Cincinnati, talks with Dawn WiIley in Lincoln Heights. “You are explaining things that need to be heard,” Willey said.

Socialist Workers Party campaign

Workers need to build a party of labor, take political power

“We can win working people to get behind the fight for a society where all workers in the U.S. are welcome and join together to defend our class interests against capitalist exploitation,” Eric Simpson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor…

‘Militant’ fights bans in Florida prison and in a jail in Phoenix

Issue no. 2 of the Militant, dated Jan. 20, 2025, has been banned at Santa Rosa Correctional Institution in Milton, Florida. A letter sent to the paper from a subscriber there said it “was impounded for no reason.” He attached…

Israel: ‘Destroy Hamas, prevent Tehran getting nuclear weapons’

Kidnapping of Shiri Bibas and her two children by Hamas Oct. 7, 2023. After more than a year, Hamas told Israel it was returning their dead bodies, dashing hopes that they were still alive.

Despite the unstable ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon the key questions — Israel’s dismantling of Hamas so it cannot carry out more bloody pogroms against Jews, as well as Israel preventing Tehran from getting nuclear weapons — remain unresolved. This…

Three years since Moscow invaded: Back fight for Ukraine sovereignty!

Ukrainian workers inspect protective dome of Chernobyl nuclear plant damaged by Feb. 14 drone strike. Mos-cow targets civilians, Ukraine’s energy sites, including nuclear power plants.

February 24 marks the opening of the fourth year of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale war against the people of Ukraine. Ten days before, a drone strike, which Kyiv blamed on Moscow, hit the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant in…

East Palestine meetings discuss two-year battle against effects of train derailment

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — On Feb. 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern train derailed here, dumping 38 cars on the ground, including 11 full of toxic chemicals. A massive fire lit up this small town. Over the objections of the company…

What does Trump’s war against ‘big government’ mean for working people?

Since his inauguration Jan. 20, President Donald Trump has moved to implement his pledge to save money, eliminate waste and shift the political priorities of the vast federal bureaucracy. This encompasses the Treasury Department, “foreign aid,” “diversity” programs across all…

Also In This Issue

Editorials

The working class in power relies on our own fighting capacities

On the Picket Line

Books of the Month

Malcolm X: ‘Intransigent opponent of both Democrats, Republicans’

In Review

Film shows historic fight against long-term solitary confinement

25, 50 and 75 years ago

Features

Despite US economic war, ‘here we are, opening Cuba’s yearly book festival’

Col. José Manuel Cereijo, head of Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces Center for Military Studies, giving presentation on first full day of the Havana book fair Feb. 14 on internationalist missions by Cuban volunteer combatants in Africa over more than six decades.

HAVANA — “We’re confronting a difficult world situation and the intensification of the U.S. economic blockade against Cuba — but here we are, opening the 33rd Havana International Book Fair!” said Juan Rodríguez Cabrera, president of the Cuban Book Institute.…

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.