SWP campaign in Oakland joins protests against attacks on Israel

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024
Margaret Trowe, SWP candidate for U.S. Congress in California’s District 12, speaks against San Leandro City Council motion for an Israeli cease-fire, which would only strengthen Hamas.

SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — The Socialist Workers Party campaign joined other supporters of Israel’s right to exist as a refuge for Jews to speak out against Jew-hatred at City Council debates here and in Alameda Jan. 2. This author is…


Reactionary gov’t in Iran key to Mideast conflict

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024
Tehran, March 8, 1979: 100,000 women, men protest attempt to impose compulsory head covering on women after overturn of U.S.-backed shah. Regime wasn’t able to impose hijab until 1983, as bourgeois clerical counterrevolution consolidated. Regime is trying to extend its reactionary influence across the region.

The reactionary bourgeois clerical regime in Tehran is driven to increase its regional power and influence by force of arms. Its leaders strive to extend beyond Iran’s borders the four-decade-long political counterrevolution that pushed back the workers, farmers, women and…


Defend Israel’s right to exist! Fight against Jew-hatred is union issue

Call for Israel ‘cease-fire’ gives support to Hamas
Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024
Hundreds protested in St. Louis Dec. 10 in defense of Israel as refuge for Jews, against antisemitism. Reactionary support for Hamas massacre of Jews has spurred counterprotests.

U.S. officials say they’re focused on preventing a widening of the war between Israel and the Tehran-organized “axis of resistance,” which includes Hamas, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Tehran-backed militias in Syria and Iraq, and Houthi-based Islamists in Yemen. “I have been…


Capitalist rulers attack Ukraine unions, seize offices

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024

Ukraine’s capitalist rulers, with the urging of their imperialist backers in Washington, are using wartime conditions and claims they’re advancing “de-Sovietization” to attack the union movement and weaken its ability to fight to protect workers’ interests. This includes moves to…


Join SWP campaigning in the working class!

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024

The Socialist Workers Party candidates and their supporters invite you to join in taking the party’s revolutionary program to working people on their doorsteps, on strike picket lines, and at social protest actions. Since the Tehran-backed Hamas massacre of Jews…



Sankara spoke for the exploited and oppressed of the world

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024
“Without a fight no new order will be built,” Thomas Sankara told a mass rally on March 8, 1987. “We are not looking to organize what exists but to definitely destroy and replace it.”

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January is the French edition of We Are Heirs of the World’s Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87 by Thomas Sankara. In August 1983 a popular revolutionary government arose from…


End Washington’s economic war on Cuba!

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024

The fight to end the brutal economic, trade and financial war against the Cuban people waged by the U.S. capitalist rulers and their government in Washington is deeply in the interests of workers and our unions. This punishing embargo is…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024

January 25, 1999 The Clinton administration is on the offensive to get Black farmers to quit their struggle against discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Capitalist newspapers across the country are carrying stories presenting the consent decree signed by…


Support Canadian sugar workers on strike 15 weeks

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The members of Public and Private Workers of Canada Local 8 are now in their 15th week of a hard-fought battle against Lantic’s Rogers Sugar bosses, who are trying to force a concession contract down workers’…