For a labor party, based on the unions

Vol. 88/No. 13 - April 1, 2024

For decades the ruling capitalist families have governed through a two-party shell game, keeping workers tied to voting for the “lesser evil” between the bosses’ parties, the Democrats and Republicans. A working-class alternative needs to be built. It begins with…


Quebec public workers vote new contracts up

Vol. 88/No. 13 - April 1, 2024

MONTREAL — Common Front Quebec union federations representing 420,000 public sector employees, including hospital, education workers and teachers, announced Feb. 23 that union members had voted by 75% to accept a new contract with a wage increase of 17.4% over…


Working-class road to women’s emancipation

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024

International Women’s Day is celebrated around the world March 8. On this occasion the Militant is printing excerpts from The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward by SWP leaders Jack Barnes, Mary-Alice…


Navalny funeral turnout shows opposition to Putin

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024

In the largest political protest against the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his war in Ukraine since it began over two years ago, thousands gathered for the Moscow funeral of Alexei Navalny March 1. For days after, they…


Conditions facing women unionists in Ukraine today

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024

“The expansionist war of the Russian regime has ruined the lives of millions of Ukrainians, deprived them of their homes and forced them to seek safety and shelter in other regions of Ukraine and beyond its borders,” the Confederation of…


Thousands turn out to join Navalny funeral, protest Putin, Ukraine war

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024

Several thousand people turned out for the funeral of Alexei Navalny, a longstanding political opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin who died in a gulag prison Feb. 16. Participants used the event to express their condemnation of Putin’s regime and…


Atlanta bakery stands up to Jew-hatred

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024

ATLANTA — “We came today to extend our solidarity to you and your family in standing up against the boycott of your store,” Lisa Potash, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Congress in the 5th District, told Sagi Shablis during a…


Ukraine unions call for solidarity against Moscow invasion

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024
Workers from the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine deliver wood, other supplies to soldiers on the frontline in war to defeat Moscow’s invasion, defend Ukraine independence.

“The priority now is defending Ukraine,” Mykhailo Volynets, chairperson of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU) and of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine, told the Militant in a phone interview Feb. 14. The vast…


Join, build March 3 San Francisco march against Jew-hatred!

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024

OAKLAND, Calif — The Socialist Workers Party and its candidates in the 2024 elections are urging the largest possible turnout for the March 3 protest against antisemitism in San Francisco, starting at 1:30 p.m. at Embarcadero Plaza. Since Oct. 7,…


Join the fight for workers power and socialism!

Vol. 88/No. 9 - March 4, 2024
Flight attendants rally at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Feb. 13. SWP campaign explains how workers transform ourselves in the class struggle.

Statement issued by John Studer, Socialist Workers Party national campaign director, Feb. 20. Socialist Workers Party candidates Rachele Fruit for president and Margaret Trowe for vice president, along with SWP candidates across the country, point the way forward for the…