SWP campaigns against Jew-hatred, for working class to strive for power

Vol. 87/No. 42 - November 13, 2023
Lea Sherman, SWP candidate for New Jersey General Assembly, discusses fight against Jew-hatred with high school students in Livingston at Oct. 15 rally defending Israel’s right to exist.

As the Nov. 7 elections near, Socialist Workers Party candidates and supporters are taking the party’s program and activities to working people on their doorsteps, on strike picket lines and at public actions against Jew-hatred. They find one of the…


Tentative auto contract goes to UAW members to be voted on

Vol. 87/No. 42 - November 13, 2023

HUDSON, Wis. — United Auto Workers Local 722 held a rally in front of the General Motors Parts Distribution plant here Oct. 30. Steve Frisque, the local’s president, told participants that picket lines would come down that evening after the…


Wave of drug store closures deepens crisis workers face

Vol. 87/No. 42 - November 13, 2023

As thousands of the Big Three chain drug stores close across the country, millions of working people face increased difficulties in filling prescriptions and getting other medical supplies. More than 40% of all U.S. counties have now become what is…



Antisemitic mobs riot in Dagestan, attack Jews

Vol. 87/No. 42 - November 13, 2023
Antisemitic mob surrounds airplanes on tarmac at Makhachkala airport in Russian republic of Dagestan Oct. 29 in hunt for Jews. Hundreds more thugs invaded airport terminal or pelted buses of passengers with rocks, seeking out those with Israeli passports.

Encouraged by Moscow’s support for Hamas, a Jew-hating mob terrorized Israeli passengers disembarking from a plane in the Russian republic of Dagestan Oct. 29, just a few weeks after Hamas’ murderous assault on Jews in Israel. Some 1,200 young men…



Thousands of LA hotel workers rally in fight over wages, dignity

Vol. 87/No. 42 - November 13, 2023
Thousands of workers from 50 Los Angeles-area hotels rallied there Oct. 25. UNITE HERE Local 11 has organized rolling strikes since July 2 in a fight for higher wages and more workers.

LOS ANGELES — Thousands of strikers from 50 area hotels rallied and marched here Oct. 25 to back up demands for higher wages and to protest hotel bosses’ attempts to pit recently hired immigrants against the striking workers. UNITE HERE…


Vile vandalism hits site of worst US antisemitic slaughter

Vol. 87/No. 42 - November 13, 2023

PITTSBURGH — In a particularly cruel act of anti-Jewish vandalism, signs in people’s yards here saying “We stand with Israel” were defaced and “Free Palestine from PGH to Gaza” painted on the local school wall Oct. 26. This was the…



Communist continuity in the fight against anti-Semitism

Vol. 87/No. 42 - November 13, 2023

Since the Tehran-backed Islamist Hamas carried out its organized slaughter Oct. 7, killing over 1,400 Jews, many working people are thinking about why this attack was called a “pogrom.” And they’re seeking to learn more about the bloody history of…