Paul Mailhot, left, SWP candidate for mayor of New York, at May Day rally. Socialist Workers Party calls for working people to break with the Democrats, Republicans, take political power.

Socialist Workers Party offers road forward for working class

SWP candidate Paul Mailhot in New York: ‘All political questions are class questions’ NEW YORK — World media attention has been focused on the Democratic Party’s bourgeois socialist candidate for New York City mayor, 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani, since he won…

NATO and G7 summits reflect growing strife, threat of war

U.S. tanks unloaded at Baltic port in Poland Jan. 18. Deepening capitalist crisis today is pushing imperialist powers, capitalist rulers to greater competition, rivalries, moves to boost military might, the search for new allies, tariff wars and the growing threat of a new world war.

The U.S. rulers’ bombing of Iranian nuclear sites and then President Donald Trump’s imposition of an Israel-Tehran ceasefire three days later deepened the threat of wider wars, political instability and trade tensions. Washington’s unilateral action — aimed at asserting its…

Thousands protest Moscow’s tyranny in the Altai region

Thousands rallied in Gorno-Altaysk, capital of Altai Republic, June 21 against Moscow’s moves to abolish local village councils, attack rights of indigenous peoples there. Sign at right says, “Hands off Altai!” Sign in back says, “Let’s save the village for our children.”

In one of the largest expressions of social unrest since Moscow invaded Ukraine over three years ago, thousands rallied in Russia’s Altai Republic June 21 to protest Kremlin-organized “reforms” that end local self-government and attack the rights and cultural heritage…

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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.