Joanne Kuniansky, right, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New Jersey, brings solidarity to striking engineers picket line at New Jersey Transit station in Hoboken May 16.

‘Militant,’ books, fund drive over the top!

‘More workers are interested in SWP campaign than in years’

OAKLAND, Calif. — The depth of interest in discussing how to deal with the crisis of capitalism workers see all around us is reflected in the response to the Socialist Workers Party election campaigns and the spring drive to win…

New protests hit Hamas in Gaza, as imperialist conflicts deepen

March in Khan Younis, Gaza, May 19, at start of three days of protests demanding Hamas get out. The vast majority of Palestinians reject the Hamas cult of death and destruction.

In the largest protest against Hamas so far, thousands of Palestinians marched daily in Khan Younis in southern Gaza May 19-21. They chanted “Hamas, out, out!” “Hamas, you’re a bunch of losers — the people of Gaza don’t want to…

Engineers at NJ Transit end strike, debate contract offer

New Jersey Transit engineers, of BLET union, picket outside rail yard in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, May 17. After three-day strike, they’re now debating a tentative contrac

NEW YORK — The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen union officials announced they had signed a tentative agreement with New Jersey Transit May 18, the country’s third largest commuter railroad, ending a three-day strike that impacted some 350,000 engers…

Union-led rallies protest gov’t arrests, deportations of immigrant workers

Unions demand return of deported SMART member

WASHINGTON — “Labor Demands Justice for Kilmar” is the headline on a flyer for a May 22 rally — postponed at the last minute by forecasted heavy wind and rain, to be rescheduled shortly. It demands the U.S. government bring…

Dominican sugar workers back US farmworkers’ fight

of Sugarcane Workers Union in San Pedro de Macorís province, Dominican Republic, send solidarity May 12 to fight to prevent deportation of farmworkers’ union leader Alfredo “Lelo” Juárez. He is currently held in jail by U.S. immigration police in Washington state.

The fight by labor unions and defenders of the rights of immigrants to win the release of Alfredo Juárez Zeferino, a farmworker union militant detained by the immigration police March 25, continues to win . “The Sugarcane Workers Union (UTC)…

Cuba responds to latest attacks, more sanctions by Washington

In Washington’s latest attack against Cuba’s socialist revolution, Secretary of State Marco Rubio placed Cuba back on the list of countries “not fully cooperating” with U.S. “counterterrorism” efforts May 13. The ruling further prohibits commerce and services with Cuba. It’s…

Back Ukraine’s fight to defend its nat’l sovereignty

Rescuers recover bodies of nine engers from shuttle bus targeted by Russian drone near Sumy, Ukraine, May 17. Putin regime’s war plan is attacking Ukrainian civilians without letup while raising maximalist demands that make ceasefire pushed by Washington, Kyiv impossible.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is pursuing his regime’s murderous war aimed at ending Ukraine’s right to exist as a sovereign state. He has feigned interest in calls by President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for peace talks, while…

Also In This Issue

Editorials

Defending Israel’s existence amid today’s crises

Books of the Month

V.I. Lenin: Imperialism is epoch of crises, wars and revolutions

25, 50 and 75 years ago

Features

US gov’t threatens to cancel right to habeas corpus workers need

For decades, tens of thousands of Japanese toiled on sugar plantations in Hawaii. In World War II, U.S. rulers imposed martial law, ended habeas corpus for Japanese and all workers.

Top officials in the Donald Trump istration say they’re leaning toward suspending the constitutionally protected right of habeas corpus, the inalienable right of all people — U.S. citizens or not — to challenge their arrest in court. The threat comes…

‘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 ers “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 ers 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 ed 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.