Rally by hundreds of rail workers in Massapequa, New York, May 9. Five unions under anti-labor Railway Labor Act have been tied up in red tape and barred from striking for three years.

Hundreds of LIRR workers rally May 9, win solidarity

MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. — Some 500 rail workers and their supporters rallied here May 9, as a strike deadline one week away approaches, in a three-year-long fight with Long Island Rail Road bosses for a new contract with wages that keep…


Cuba’s people stand against escalating new US sanctions

Solar-powered charging station, or “solinera,” in Santa Clara, Cuba, the first of its kind in the country, provides free power to workers facing blackouts caused by Washington’s oil blockade.

While millions of people in Cuba demonstrated in defense of the country’s sovereignty and socialist revolution May 1, the U.S. capitalist rulers imposed a new round of punishing sanctions, intensifying their efforts to topple the government. President Donald Trump’s administration…


‘Militant,’ books, spring fund all are over the top!

Margaret Trowe, SWP candidate for California governor, with strikers on picket line at JBS plant in Greeley, Colorado, April 2. The SWP uses Militant, its campaigns to support union fights.

Members of the Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom brought home May 12 the eight-week spring campaign to win 1,300 Militant subscriptions and sell the same number of books by SWP leaders and…




Join fight against bans on ‘Militant’ in Florida prisons

The Militant won another round in its fight against a series of bans on the paper by prison authorities April 30, when the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee reversed the impoundment of issues nos. 11, 12 and 14…

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Dave Prince: Marxist, revolutionary working-class leader of the SWP

New York meeting of 160 celebrated Prince’s life and political contributions over six decades
Panel at New York meeting March 22 celebrating life and political contributions of Dave Prince. Inset, Jack Barnes, national secretary of SWP who collaborated closely with Prince in party leadership work for decades, with Mary-Alice Waters and Paul Mailhot, co-chairs of the meeting.

NEW YORK — “Above all, Dave Prince was a Marxist, a working-class revolutionist,” Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, told participants at a March 22 event here celebrating Prince’s life and political contributions building a proletarian party…




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.