Washington’s trade blockade curtailed public transport, but Cuban government, people were able to open schools anyway. Above, electric tricycle driver, passengers in Havana in August.

US hands off Cuba! End the stranglehold of the US blockade

Join fight to defend Cuba’s socialist revolution!

Cuba tells UN: ‘US blockade punishes life of our people’ “The long months living with only two or three hours of electricity a day or less, food spoiling, the heat that makes it impossible to sleep, parents fanning their babies,…

Working people in Cuba come together to battle water crisis

Cuban water truck supplies residents in Pinar del Río. Washington’s tightening oil blockade of the island causes power blackouts that stop water pumps, shortages of medical supplies. U.S. Embassy in Havana cynically issued health alert to U.S. travelers about poor water quality, lack of medicines.

The growing lack of safe drinking water in Cuba today is a product of the U.S. government’s ever-tightening oil blockade and punishing sanctions against the import of energy and other resources. This means a much greater risk of serious health…

Does German vote open door to the return of fascist rule?

Berlin is sharply expanding militarization, including converting car plants to arms production. Above, production line at Rheinmetall tank factory, the largest in Europe, in Kassel, Germany.

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party scored its best election returns ever Sept. 6 in the former East German state of Saxony-Anhalt, one of the areas of the country hardest hit by the capitalist crisis. It polled almost 44% of…

1964: Freedom Summer took Jim Crow fight into Mississippi

Standing up to racist harassment and violence, Laura McGhee, above, opened her small farm outside Greenwood, Mississippi, to SNCC campaigners and others for rallies and meetings during the 1964 Freedom Summer campaign to build the movement, deal blows to Jim Crow.

The 1963 March on Washington inspired Blacks as well as workers of all colors around the country. On its heels, leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee began to discuss organizing a Freedom Summer project all across Mississippi. The goal…

SWP: US workers can learn from Cuba, its role in the freedom struggle in Africa

Amílcar Cabral, leader of independence struggle against Portuguese colonialism in Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, with young fighters, 1972. He instilled moral values in all the combatants.

OAKLAND, Calif. — “This is an important book,” Brando Williams told listeners to his Peralta Community College radio show, “The Bottom Half,” Aug. 27, here. Williams was referring to Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde: The…

Weakened Tehran turns to Houthis to exert leverage on Washington, Saudis

The Tehran-backed Houthis in Yemen have stepped up their missile and drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities and seized more territory from Saudi-backed government forces in Yemen, including the strategic port of Mokha Sept. 11. The reactionary group has taken…

Virginia black lung meeting says cases are at 50-year high

ABINGDON, Va. — “It’s critically important to tell your stories,” Brandon Crum, a radiologist from Pikeville, Kentucky, told the more than 100 coal miners and others gathered at the National Black Lung Association meeting here Sept. 11. “We have momentum…

Also In This Issue

Editorials

Imperialist rivalries threaten new world war

On the Picket Line

Hospice nurses strike for better staffing levels, conditions, pay

As I See It

Dolly Parton: longtime opponent of Jew-hatred

25, 50 and 75 years ago

Features

Defense of constitutional freedoms is key in the class struggle today

News conference March 17, 1988, announces victory for constitutional rights in SWP’s lawsuit against federal government for FBI spying. From left, SWP National Secretary Jack Barnes, lead attorney Leonard Boudin, John Studer, director of the Political Rights Defense Fund.

The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward by Jack Barnes, Mary-Alice Waters and Steve Clark is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. The excerpt is from the opening section…

SWP conference: Building a working-class party on Marxist foundations in the fight for workers power amid today’s capitalist crises and wars

Socialist Workers Party National Secretary Jack Barnes presents political report to June international party conference. With Barnes, from left are SWP leaders Paul Mailhot, Mary-Alice Waters and Steve Clark.

(first of two articles) OBERLIN, Ohio — “The Socialist Workers Party exists, born in class struggle.…

‘Live a life focused on conquering workers power from capitalists, war makers’ — Cuban Revolution set example for fighters

Audience of 300 at 2026 SWP international conference. “The Socialist Workers Party exists, born in class struggle. Build it!” says banner.

Last week’s Militant featured part one of an article on the Socialist Workers Party’s June 11-14…

Build protests now to defend Cuba’s sovereignty! US hands off Cuba!

A Call to Action by the Socialist Workers Party

Right, 250,000 Cubans rally in front of U.S. Embassy in Havana May 22 to protest Washington’s indictment of Raúl Castro, a central leader of Cuba’s socialist revolution. Left, 100 people joined rally next day in Boston, among growing protests against U.S. war threats on Cuba.

The following statement was released May 26 by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers…

US out of the Middle East!

Several people were killed by Iranian missile strike in Beit Shemesh, Israel, March 1. Israel’s defensive war aims to prevent Tehran launching a nuclear Holocaust to wipe out Jews, Israel.

The following statement was released March 1, 2026, by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist…

SWP call to action: US hands off Cuba! End Washington’s economic blockade!

Left, Rachele Fruit, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate in Florida, joined Miami Coalition for End of the Blockade, others in Feb. 8 protest in Miami against U.S. rulers’ attacks on Cuba. Right, SWP joined Minnesota Cuba Committee, SCOTA, others in picket line in Minneapolis Feb. 9.

A Call to Action by the Socialist Workers Party The following statement was released February 7, 2026, by…

Condemn Washington’s attack on Venezuela’s sovereignty! US out now!

Statement issued Jan. 3 by National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party

Protest in Miami Jan. 3 against Washington’s violation of Venezuela’s national sovereignty with its bombing and special operations forces raid in Caracas that kidnapped country’s president.

The Socialist Workers Party condemns in the strongest possible terms Washington’s invasion of Venezuela and…

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.