Kaiser hospital workers demand: ‘Hire more staff! Raise our pay!’

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023

LOS ANGELES — Over 75,000 Kaiser hospital workers carried out a three-day strike Oct. 4-6 in California, Oregon, Washington and Colorado. Kaiser workers in Virginia and the District of Columbia went out for one day. The central issues are the…


‘Protest US rulers’ economic war on the Cuban people’

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023

MIAMI — Thirty-five people joined a Miami Caravan action here Oct. 1, setting up a lively and highly visible vigil in the pouring rain at the Miami International Airport to demand an end to Washington’s embargo against Cuba and removal…


UAW members strike is a fight for the entire working class

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023
Chanting, “No deal? No wheels!” members of United Auto Workers Local 551 rallied at their union hall Oct. 7 in Chicago. The 4,600 workers at Ford there went on strike Sept. 29, bringing the total to 25,000 workers on strike against the Big Three auto companies in 21 states.

CHICAGO — Spirited chants of “UAW! UAW! UAW!” and “No deal? No wheels!” filled United Auto Workers Local 551’s Ford workers’ union hall here Oct. 7. Hundreds rallied to hear UAW President Shawn Fain and other speakers, part of the…


SWP tells truth about Hamas war on Jews, builds US labor struggles

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023
Lisa Potash, SWP candidate for U.S. Congress from Georgia, told Militant Labor Forum in Atlanta Oct. 8 that middle-class left falsely portrays Hamas as a national liberation organization. In fact it is “a reactionary Islamist puppet of Tehran” that rules Palestinians in Gaza by thuggery.

The Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Canada, Australia and the U.K. are campaigning to explain why Israel must be defended as a refuge for Jews and why the pogroms Hamas launched on Israeli citizens must be exposed and…


Biggest massacre of Jews since the Nazi Holocaust

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023
Cars shot up, blocked as Jewish participants in all-night music festival near Gaza tried to flee Hamas’ murderous attacks Oct. 7. Killing or kidnapping Jews was Hamas’ main objective.

The murderous pogrom Oct. 7 by Hamas and its allies is a stark warning to all working people that Jew-hating slaughter and demagogy are a permanent reality of the world imperialist order. These heinous acts and the bourgeois leaderships that…


Condemn Jew-hating pogrom! Defend Israel’s right to exist!

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023
Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, speaks to press at Oct. 10 event at Miami’s Holocaust Memorial to condemn Hamas pogrom in Israel. SWP is part of decadeslong continuity of communist movement in fight against Jew-hatred, she said.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — The Holocaust Memorial here was the site of an Oct. 10 rally of some 3,000 in solidarity with the Jews of Israel after the Nazi-style pogrom three days earlier. “We distributed flyers for the next Militant…


Fight to win workers power and socialism to end Jew-hatred

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023

At an Oct. 10 rally in Miami to stand in solidarity with the Jews of Israel after the Nazi-style pogrom carried out by Hamas and its allies, Rachele Fruit, the 2024 Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from Florida,…


UK rail workers fight for pay, win fired worker’s job back

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023

MANCHESTER, England — Workers employed by contractors for rail companies around the country are finding ways to fight for equal pay,  improved conditions and union rights. This occurs as workers at rail companies, members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport…


LA hotel workers fight for contract

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023

LOS ANGELES — Some three dozen striking hotel workers, beating drums and plastic buckets and blowing on vuvuzelas, picketed the Westin hotel near the Los Angeles airport Oct. 7. They were protesting the latest contract offer from the bosses, an…


Fidel Castro: ‘Without doubt, Israel has right to exist’

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023
“Nothing compares to the Holocaust,” Fidel Castro told Jeffrey Goldberg in 2010 interview. Castro, left, with Goldberg, right, and Jewish community leader Adela Dworin in Havana, August 2010.

Since the pogrom by Hamas and its allies, Stalinists and middle-class radicals have been organizing actions under the slogan, “From the river to the sea, Palestine must be free” — a call for the destruction of Israel and slaughter of…