Join SWP in fight against Jew-hatred, to advance working-class struggles

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024
Lea Sherman, right, SWP candidate for U.S. Congress from New Jersey, campaigns at Jan. 12 “Bring Them Home” action at U.N. to demand return of hostages seized by Hamas. Sponsored by Jewish organizations, it drew over 2,500 people, including high school student contingents.

Socialist Workers Party members in Washington, D.C., called on area unions to condemn a Jew-hating attack on holiday displays in the Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore Dec. 23.  Lights were torn from the front fence of Rabbi Moshe Moskowitz’s house. He…



As immigration spikes, workers look to unify the working class

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024
Farmworkers harvesting onions near Alamo, Texas. The SWP calls for amnesty for all workers living in the U.S. regardless of where they come from. Overcoming the divisions between immigrant and native-born workers is essential to beating back attacks by the bosses.

FORT WORTH, Texas — Over 300,000 immigrants crossed the southwest border of the U.S. last month, the highest number ever recorded. In one week in December some 12,000 migrants crossed the Texas border with Mexico at Eagle Pass.   Last…


Panel blown off Boeing airplane shows need to end profit system

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024
Door-size panel tore off Alaska Airlines plane Jan. 5, forcing emergency landing in Portland, Oregon. Threat to passengers, crews is a result of the bosses’ insatiable drive for profits.

The near disaster when a door-sized panel on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 jet ripped off in midflight Jan. 5 exposes once again how the bosses’ drive for profits above all else comes at the expense of safety…


Prosecution of Israel in the World Court is a frame-up

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024
Jews deported by train from Hungary arrive at Auschwitz death camp in Poland in 1944. In the Holocaust, Nazi capitalist rulers in Germany and their allies killed 6 million Jews, a systematic, genocidal state-sponsored mass murder, the scope of which no other people have ever faced.

The South African government is seeking to speak for all those who oppose the existence of Israel. It went before the United Nation’s World Court Jan. 11 to charge Israel with committing genocide against the Palestinian people. The accusation stands…


Defend right of Israel to exist as a refuge for Jews

Fight to destroy Hamas is in interests of all workers
Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024
Protest at U.N. World Court in The Hague Jan. 11 as South African rulers’ case charging Israel with ”genocide” opened. Protesters said case is political and legal cover for Hamas’ Oct. 7 pogrom against Jews in Israel, which the Tehran-backed outfit says it will do “again and again.”

Tens of thousands joined protests around the world over the Jan. 12 weekend to demand Hamas release all the remaining hostages the Tehran-backed group kidnapped as part of its murderous pogrom in Israel Oct. 7. The protests in London, Paris,…


Fidel Castro: ‘Never had such a profound change taken place’

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024
Fidel Castro’s Freedom Caravan enters Havana, Cuba, Jan. 8, 1959. “A sea of people,” he said, met rebel fighters after popular insurrection, general strike sealed victory in revolutionary war.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January is In Defense of Socialism: Four Speeches on the 30th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution  by Fidel Castro, its central leader. The triumph of the Cuban people on Jan. 1, 1959,…


Big jump in ‘Militant’ readership behind bars

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024

The number of workers behind bars who subscribe to the Militant grew from 191 in March 2023 to more than 260 today — a 36% increase in less than a year! And there’s no sign the increase is slowing down.…


Teamsters ‘extended picket line’ backs striking US Foods drivers

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024

BENSENVILLE, Ill. — More than 130 striking drivers at the US Foods distribution center here are getting support from fellow Teamsters around the country. Teamsters Local 705 is sending striking workers to other US Foods warehouses around the country in…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024

February 1, 1999 President William Clinton repeated in his State of the Union address a favorite theme of bourgeois politicians: that Social Security may be bankrupt within a few decades because a bigger section of the population is living longer…