The following statement was released May 26 by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, on behalf of the party’s National Committee. The Socialist Workers Party, in the strongest possible terms, condemns the U.S. rulers’ accelerating acts of…
On May 20 the U.S. Justice Department filed charges against Cuban leader Raúl Castro and five Cuban pilots for murder, conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals and destruction of U.S. civilian aircraft. The case revolves around a 1996 downing of two…
The conflicting interests of Washington and Israel are clearer than ever as the Donald Trump administration pushes to reach a deal with the Iranian regime. Washington’s war on Iran and its on-again, off-again negotiations with Tehran are both aimed at…
FORT MORGAN, Colo. — Some 1,700 Teamsters union members who work at the giant Cargill meat processing plant here were locked out by the company May 20. The unionists had rejected the company’s so-called last and best contract offer by…
For more than four years, Ukrainian working people have fought courageously to protect their country’s sovereignty in the face of Moscow’s murderous assaults. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who claims Ukraine doesn’t exist as a real country, is incapable of understanding…
The Militant is encouraging its readers to help win support for the paper’s fight to reverse the monthslong banning of three issues by prison authorities in Florida. Letters have been sent by prominent civil liberties organizations, trade unionists and others…
ATLANTA — Fifty-one people attended a spirited meeting here April 19 to celebrate the life and political contributions of John Benson, a member and leader of the Socialist Workers Party for 64 years. Benson died March 6 after a brief…
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.
