Left, Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey, describes her party’s program to hospital electrician Darwin Cruz in Perth Amboy Oct. 25. Right, Kevin Dwire, SWP Senate candidate in Minnesota, joins Oct. 26 Minneapolis protest, “U.S. hands off Cuba!”

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Vote Socialist Workers Party! Join the SWP campaigning, now and after the elections!

Vote for the Socialist Workers Party candidates Nov. 3! Join with the SWP and build the one party that speaks loudly and clearly for the class interests of all working people and exploited producers — the party that points the…

SWP points road forward for working class to take power

Margaret Trowe, SWP candidate for governor of California, discusses why amnesty for workers without papers in the U.S. is in the interests of all workers with Martín Mejía in Fresno Oct. 24.

Confronted with a daily barrage of vitriolic campaign ads by the Democratic and Republicans berating each other ahead of the Nov. 3 elections, working people in the U.S. have welcomed discussions with Socialist Workers Party candidates about a road forward…

Working people should support Israel’s battle to defeat Hamas

Three years ago on Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas carried out a deadly pogrom against Jews in Israel, financed and backed by the reactionary rulers in Tehran. Hamas thugs swept across the border from Gaza, hunting down and murdering 1,200 people,…

Back Phillips 66 refinery workers locked out by bosses in New Jersey

Teamsters Local 877 members rally after lockout Oct. 19 at Phillips 66 Bayway oil refinery, largest on East Coast. Workers rejected bosses’ concession demands on pay, health, safety.

LINDEN, N.J. — Some two dozen locked-out members of Teamsters Local 877 walked the picket line outside the main gate to the Phillips 66 Bayway Refinery here Oct. 25. Passing car and truck drivers honked their horns in support. The…

In face of US blockade, cooperatives in Cuba defend gains of the revolution

The July 26 Agricultural Production Cooperative in Abreus, Cuba, one of many cooperatives hard hit by lack of fuel due to the U.S. blockade, has been forced to make shifts to continue production. Above, cooperative members during massive sugarcane planting drive in 2021.

After working people in Cuba, led by Fidel Castro and the July 26 Movement, overthrew the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista on Jan. 1, 1959, the new revolutionary government that emerged took decisive measures to put the toiling majority in…

Is Russian dictator Vladimir Putin a ‘humanitarian’?

“You are a humanitarian,” was the gushing praise Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s special envoy, heaped on Russian President Vladimir Putin when they met in St. Petersburg Oct. 21. Putin had just released from prison Stephen Hubbard, a retired schoolteacher,…

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Worldwide protests demand: ‘US hands off Cuba!’

NEW YORK — Some 60 people marched and rallied here Oct. 24 to demand an end to Washington’s brutal oil blockade against Cuba and its countless other sanctions and threats against the Cuban people. It was part of a series…

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.…

‘Live a life focused on conquering workers power from capitalists, war makers’ — Cuban Revolution set example for fighters

Audience of 300 at 2026 SWP international conference. “The Socialist Workers Party exists, born in class struggle. Build it!” says banner.

Last week’s Militant featured part one of an article on the Socialist Workers Party’s June 11-14…

Stand with Cuba in fight to defend its revolution!

Protest US rulers’ blockade, threats of war

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, right, meets with water supply workers Aug. 27 in Havana. Cuba is taking steps to revive production crippled by U.S. rulers’ attacks, defend its revolution.

In face of US assaults, Cuba acts to revive industry, farming Three months ago the Central Committee of the…

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…

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…

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.