Eric Simpson, second from left, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Oakland, joined hundreds of trade unionists April 12 at Cesar Chavez labor parade and festival there.

Socialist Workers Party 2025 campaign

Defend immigrants rights! Back fight to unite the working class

‘We need to build a party to take political power’ SEATTLE — Eric Simpson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Oakland, and SWP campaign supporters joined with hundreds of trade unionists April 12 at a labor parade and festival…

10 days: 1,278 people sign to put SWP on NJ ballot

After discussion with Craig Honts, left, SWP candidate for N.J. lieutenant governor, Barry Barrett signed SWP petition, got Militant sub, Are They Rich Because They’re Smart? April 10.

UNION CITY, N.J. — Ten days into the fight to win ballot status for the Socialist Workers Party candidates in New Jersey — Joanne Kuniansky for governor and Craig Honts for lieutenant governor — campaigners have signed up 1,278 people…

Washington-Beijing conflict sharpens with new tariff clash

Joint war games by U.S., Japanese, Australian military forces in the Philippine Sea in 2020. U.S. rulers look to defend their military, financial supremacy from expanding reach of Beijing.

The battle over tariffs unfolding between Washington and Beijing, and worldwide, is driven by the determination of the capitalist rulers in every country to defend their own national interests against all others, as the crisis of their dog-eat-dog system deepens.…

Opposition to Hamas grows in Gaza and the West Bank

Thousands march against Hamas in Beit Lahiya, Gaza, April 16. When a dozen men showed up with signs opposing disarming Hamas, protesters tore up their signs and kicked them out.

In one more reflection of the growing opposition to Hamas and its Jew-hating allies in Gaza, Mohammad Sakr, head of nursing at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, called on armed thugs of Islamic Jihad to stop using the medical facility…

SMART union, family fight against deportation of worker to El Salvador

Vigil outside White House April 14 calls for return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, wrongfully deported to and now imprisoned in El Salvador. His wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, center with stroller, other family members are fighting to bring him home, as is SMART, Abrego’s union.

GREENBELT, Md. — “Today is 34 days after his disappearance and I stand here filled with a spirit that refuses to back down. I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive,” Jennifer Stefania Vasquez Sura, wife of…

As Trump calls for ceasefire, Moscow steps up bombing civilians in Ukraine

The regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin has stepped up its relentless aerial assault on civilian targets in Ukrainian cities, increasing deaths and destruction. Putin is punishing the Ukrainian toilers for their intransigent defense of their country’s sovereignty. And his…

Gov’t cuts federal labor mediators from 143 to 4. Is this a problem?

Liberal media and politicians are sounding the alarm about one of President Donald Trump’s executive orders last month that eliminated the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, saying it will lead to more labor strife. Only four mediators remain at the…

Also In This Issue

Editorials

Back Ukraine sovereignty! US out of Europe!

25, 50 and 75 years ago

Features

Cuba’s revolutionary course and proletarian morality

Preface to new book, ‘Revolution and the Road to Peace in Colombia,’ writings by Fidel Castro

Rebel Army column led by Ernesto Che Guevara is joined by people of Santa Clara after that Cuban city and Santiago de Cuba were liberated Jan. 1, 1959. Within hours, Batista dictatorship fell. Revolutionary war, Fidel Castro said, was won with “a minimum of weapons and a maximum of moral values.”

Below is the preface to Revolution and the Road to Peace in Colombia: The Example of the Cuban Revolution, published by Pathfinder Press, a collection of writings by Fidel Castro. Available for the first time at the Bogotá, Colombia, international…

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…

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…

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…

‘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.