25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 87/No. 43 - November 20, 2023

November 23, 1998 MONTREAL — During the first week of their speaking tour in Canada that started November 1, two young Cubans, Juan Carlos Frómeta and Raiza Rodríguez, met with more than 200 students on campuses here, and 50 delegates…


Working class must lead fight to end Jew-hatred

Vol. 87/No. 43 - November 20, 2023

Statement by Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from Texas, Nov. 8. In the imperialist era Jew-hatred, which has existed for millennia, becomes an essential tool for the ruling capitalist class to maintain power as working-class struggles…



Bolsheviks set example in building a revolutionary workers party

Vol. 87/No. 43 - November 20, 2023
Petrograd Soviet meets in September 1917 as working-class support for Bolshevik Party expands, culminating in Russian Revolution. Socialist Workers Party is being built along the same course, forging a revolutionary working-class party in program and composition to take power.

The French edition of The Turn to Industry: Forging a Proletarian Party by Socialist Workers Party National Secretary Jack Barnes is one of the November Books of the Month from Pathfinder Press. It explains that working people will only truly…




Protests demand Mexican gov’t account for 43 missing students

Vol. 87/No. 43 - November 20, 2023
Thousands marched in Mexico City Sept. 26 on ninth anniversary of disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa, demanding answers from government about who is responsible.

Nine years after the 2014 kidnapping and disappearance of 43 protesting students from Ayotzinapa by powerful drug cartels acting in collusion with the Mexican military and police, their relatives and supporters continue to protest and demand answers from the government…


Hotel workers in Los Angeles area strike, rally for contract

Vol. 87/No. 43 - November 20, 2023
Hotel workers in Los Angeles area strike, rally for contract

LOS ANGELES — Chanting “Se ve, se siente, la unión esta presente” and “Unete, unete, a la lucha unete” (“You can see it, you can feel it, the union is here” and “Join, join, join the fight”), hundreds of hotel…


UK refuse workers reject wages below inflation, strike for more

Vol. 87/No. 43 - November 20, 2023

WARRINGTON, England — Some 65 refuse workers employed by the Labour Party-led Warrington Borough Council and organized by the Unite union have voted for a third wave of strike action. Their first set of strike days began Oct. 3, part…


DC rally commemorates death of Zhina Amini in Iran

Vol. 87/No. 43 - November 20, 2023

WASHINGTON — Over 75 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for a vigil Oct. 28 commemorating the death of Zhina Amini, the young Kurdish woman who died one year ago Sept. 16 after her arrest by the hated “morality police”…