Naomi Craine, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate, and Moises Cruz, supporter of Puerto Rican independence and Cuban Revolution, carry party’s banner in Chicago May Day march.

May Day actions back union battles, rights of immigrants

Protests point to potential to unify the working class

Hundreds of thousands of workers in the U.S. and around the world turned out for marches, rallies and other actions called by unions and others on May Day. In the U.S. many of the actions focused on the defense of…


Defend Cuba from stepped up attacks by Washington

“Cuba is fully entitled to trade for fuel with any country, without restrictions, conditions, or questioning that contravene freedom of international trade,” Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said April 14. Rodríguez condemned the U.S. rulers’ economic strangulation of Cuba, intensified…


SWP, ‘Militant’ get strong hearing at national actions

“Building unions is key,” Michale Lawal told Communist League member Julie Crawford in London May 3. He got a Militant subscription, made contribution to the Militant Fighting Fund.

Samuel Nava, a farmworker for more than 20 years and now a landscape designer, met Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate, at the May Day action of 250 people in Coral Gables, Florida. Agricultural workers came on…


Crisis facing working-class families grows as prices soar

Working-class households are being hit hard by the deepening crisis of capitalism today, squeezed by the lack of a good-paying job as well as high prices for basic necessities, from groceries to electricity, healthcare, housing, car payments, fertilizer for family…


US forces out of the Middle East!
Bring the troops back home now!

World’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford, in Mediterranean Sea March 22. U.S. Navy says its “warfighting effectiveness, lethality” is to defend U.S. rulers’ “interests in the region.”

Uncertainty about what will happen next in the Strait of Hormuz and in Washington’s war on Iran continues against a backdrop of deepening rivalry and shifting alliances between capitalist powers worldwide, each looking to defend their own conflicting interests. The…


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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.