Socialist Workers Party campaign rally in Union City, New Jersey, May 10. From left, Craig Honts, SWP candidate for lieutenant governor; Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for governor; Paul Mailhot, SWP candidate for mayor of New York; Lea Sherman, chair of the meeting.

Socialist Workers Party 2025 campaign

‘This is not last year. World events are drawing workers into politics’

3,169 people sign so far to put SWP on NJ ballot UNION CITY, N.J. — “With 3,169 people signing up so far to put the Socialist Workers Party on the ballot, we’ll easily go over our goal of 3,200 before…

SWP campaign, ‘Militant,’ books reach thousands

Laura Anderson, SWP candidate for mayor of Miami, introduces Jim St. Louis to the Militant, books by SWP leaders at Little Haiti Book Festival May 4. “Amazing! We need this,” he said.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Members of the Socialist Workers Party, and of the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K., are organizing to complete the spring campaign to win 1,300 Militant subscribers, sell a similar number of books by revolutionary…

Support Israel’s drive to prevent new pogroms by Hamas, Tehran

Israel is taking the next steps to defeat Hamas, amid differences with Washington over the course of the war — fought to defend Israel’s existence — as well with the U.S. government’s moves across the Middle East. In the year…

US rulers fight to keep hold on the imperialist world ‘order’

Russian ballistic missiles ripped through Sumy, Ukraine, April 13, killing at least 35 people and wounding 84. Washington seeks to lay groundwork for alliance with Moscow against Beijing.

Since Donald Trump retook the presidency earlier this year, he’s said the goal of his administration is to resolve the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, use tariffs to improve U.S. bosses’ profits worldwide and upgrade the U.S. military…

Unions, others step up fight to defend immigrant workers from deportation

SMART General President Michael Coleman demands return of fellow union member Kilmar Abrego Garcia at news conference in Maryland April 4. Abrego was denied due process, deported, imprisoned in El Salvador. His wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, left, is leading the fight.

WASHINGTON — “Bring Kilmar Home,” the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA posted on its Facebook page April 27. “Flight attendant, union apprentice, farmworker. It doesn’t matter where you work. An injury to one is an injury to all.” They joined a…

Stakes for working class in battle over ‘decolonization’ of culture in Odesa

Odesa monument to famous Ukrainian novelist Isaac Babel, who supported Russian Revolution, was shot in Stalin’s purges. Now bureaucrats want to remove it as symbol of “Russian” culture.

Since the popular Maidan uprising by working people in Ukraine overthrew the brutal pro-Moscow regime of Viktor Yanukovych in 2014, the rulers in Russia have waged a war to reconquer and Russify as much of Ukraine as they can. They…

What’s behind the India-Pakistan war over Kashmir

Four days of escalating fighting erupted between the rulers of India and Pakistan May 7, threatening full-scale war between the two nuclear-armed powers. Growing out of cross-border shelling in the disputed region of Kashmir, drone and air-launched missile strikes soon…

Also In This Issue

Editorials

Working-class road to stop imperialism’s wars

On the Picket Line

Books of the Month

SWP in 1938: ‘Revolutionary party has to combat Jew-hatred’

25, 50 and 75 years ago

Features

Pathfinder title on Cuba introduced at Bogotá book fair

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — It was appropriate that the first copies of Revolution and the Road to Peace in Colombia: The Example of the Cuban Revolution by Fidel Castro, a new book from Pathfinder just off the presses, were released at…

‘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.