Kevin Dwire, center, SWP candidate for Minneapolis mayor, and Edwin Fruit, right, candidate for Minneapolis City Council, talk with Tonisha Bond July 2. She signed to put Dwire on ballot.

Socialist Workers Party 2025 campaign

‘The working class needs to take political power in our own hands’

SWP campaign in Minneapolis goes over the top in ballot drive MINNEAPOLIS — After nine days of campaigning throughout the city, Socialist Workers Party members have collected 757 signatures, over the goal of 750, to put Kevin Dwire, the SWP’s…

Fight for Kilmar Abrego García’s freedom! No to deportations!

Samuel Epps, president of Metropolitan Washington Council AFL-CIO, speaks at July 7 rally in Greenbelt, Maryland, demanding freedom for Kilmar Abrego García. At left is Abrego García’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura. His brother, César Abrego García, is on the other side of Epps.

GREENBELT, Md. — “We stand here as union brothers and sisters saying an injury to one is an injury to all. Whether you’re a teacher here in Prince Georges County, an iron worker or a hotel worker, we are all…

Communist League in Canada launches campaign in Quebec

Katy LeRougetel, candidate for Montreal mayor, tells June 28 campaign forum, “Workers need to fight for our own interests.” At left is Philippe Tessier, CL candidate for mayor of St. Leonard.

MONTREAL — The Communist League launched the campaigns of Katy LeRougetel for mayor of Montreal and Philippe Tessier for mayor of the borough of St. Leonard at a lively Militant Labor Forum here June 28. LeRougetel is a member of…

Support Israel’s right to exist, to fight to prevent a new Holocaust

The White House and the bourgeois news media present the current negotiations over a ceasefire in Gaza as if both the Israeli government and Nazi-inspired Hamas have equally legitimate interests and could end the war, if only they would be…

Philadelphia city workers on strike! City bosses use courts to attack strike

Some 9,000 Philadelphia city workers, members of AFSCME District Council 33, are on strike. Workers picket July 7 fighting for better pay, working conditions for sanitation, other workers.

PHILADELPHIA — The strike by some 9,000 city workers here remains solid in the face of the city government’s intervention to try to restrict picketing. Members of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees District Council 33 are fighting…

Moscow’s ‘meat grinder’ war has led to over 1 million Russian casualties

Darya Kozyreva, one of 11 Russian political prisoners who wrote July 3 open letter, speaking in court in St. Petersburg April 18 before she was imprisoned. Letter calls for release of 10,000 Russian political prisoners and Ukrainian civilian hostages held by Vladimir Putin’s regime.

Moscow on July 4 launched the largest drone and missile barrage so far since its 2022 invasion, targeting civilians in the capital Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities. The day before, Russian President Vladimir Putin talked on the phone with President…

Amazon uses robots for speedup to boost exploitation, profits

Amazon now deploys more than 1 million robots in its warehouses, company officials boast, but this doesn’t make life easier for its workforce. Instead, it increases the exploitation of the 1.2 million workers employed worldwide in Amazon’s distribution centers through…

Also In This Issue

Editorials

For an amnesty to unite the working class

On the Picket Line

Hospital strike ends in Oakland, workers vow to continue fight

Books of the Month

SWP tells court: ‘Capitalism causes wars and breeds revolutions’

25, 50 and 75 years ago

Letters

Features

New strikes, protests reflect lack of support for Iranian regime

July 3 protest and funeral march in Hamedan province, Iran, for two young men killed by regime’s Basij thugs two days before. “Our enemy is right here, they lie when they say it’s America,” marchers chanted.

During the 12-day war between Israel and the Jew-hating regime in Tehran, weekly protests in Iran by retirees and other struggles by workers were largely put on hold. Since the war ended June 24, new protests have broken out, despite…

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.