Hamas’ goal is ‘Final Solution,’ carried out to the end

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024

The mounting pressure by the Joseph Biden administration and other imperialist powers to impose a long-term cease-fire on Israel, putting on ice its battle to destroy the military capacity of Hamas, ignores the avowed intentions of this reactionary group —…



Conditions facing women unionists in Ukraine today

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024

“The expansionist war of the Russian regime has ruined the lives of millions of Ukrainians, deprived them of their homes and forced them to seek safety and shelter in other regions of Ukraine and beyond its borders,” the Confederation of…


Forum: Growing protests advance the fight against Jew-hatred today

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024
From left, Columbia professor Shai Davidai, SWP N.J. senatorial candidate Joanne Kuniansky, chair Willie Cotton, Columbia social work student Ariana Pinsker-Lehrer, and Militant staff writer Seth Galinsky at March 10 Militant Labor Forum, “The fight against Jew-hatred today.”

NEW YORK — Sixty people attended a Militant Labor Forum here March 10 to address “The fight against Jew-hatred today. Defend Israel’s right to exist as a refuge for Jews.” Speakers included Columbia University Professor Shai Davidai; Seth Galinsky, a…


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Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, is working-class alternative to both Biden and Trump
Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024
Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party 2024 candidate for president, center, introduces the party’s program at International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1416 hall in Miami Feb. 25.

The future of humanity depends on building a leadership, a party, that can mobilize the working class in our millions to take state power away from the capitalist rulers and place it into our own hands, to start down the…


BNSF rail bosses lay off workers in search of profits, undercut safety

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024

LINCOLN, Neb. — The bosses at the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway announced Feb. 28 they were furloughing over 360 mechanical and rail-car inspectors, members of the International Association of Machinists and the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen. These workers inspect,…




UAW organizing drive in Alabama at Mercedes-Benz makes progress

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024
After gains by the United Auto Workers in strike last fall against the “Big Three” automakers, support for a union at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Alabama, above, “snowballed,” autoworker Kirk Gardner, left in inset, told the Militant. Jim Spitzley, right, is president of UAW Local 112 leading organizing drive at the plant.

COTTONDALE, Ala. — “Our organizing drive got new impetus from the gains the United Auto Workers made during the strike at John Deere in 2021 and what the UAW accomplished last fall with strikes at the Big Three automakers,” Kirk…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024

March 29, 1999 The massive train crash in Illinois that killed 13 people was a disaster that could have been prevented. The main cause of the accident is known: throughout the United States, highway and rail traffic are forced to…