SWP campaigners win new support

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024
When Candace Wagner, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress, knocked on his door in Butler, Pennsylvania, UAW member Richard LeGrande said even with a union job it’s hard to afford housing. LeGrande got a Militant subscription, three books by SWP leaders.

Campaigners for Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, are introducing the party’s working-class program and activity widely among working people and making good use of the just-published title The Fight Against Jew-Hatred and Pogroms in the Imperialist…


Working people in Ukraine fight to defend their independence

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024

Moscow is stepping up its murderous assault on Ukrainian workers’ lives and on the mines and factories of the country’s eastern Donetsk region, as well as on crucial infrastructure across the country. Yet the Ukrainian people’s courageous determination to defend…




Workers hit with rising medical care costs as bosses boost profits

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024
Brookdale Senior Living residents in Shawnee, Kansas, December 2023. Bosses of nationwide assisted living chain use algorithms to make staff cuts, limit time per patient to ramp up profits.

Increasing numbers of working people are finding themselves unable to cover the exorbitant costs of health care for their family. This is because under capitalism medical care is treated like every other industry, a way to generate profit, not to…


Rachele Fruit: ‘Workers need a labor party based on the unions’

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024
Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, speaks at campaign rally in Fort Worth April 20. “The future of humanity depends on the U.S. working class taking power away from the capitalist rulers and starting down the road to a socialist revolution,” she said.

FORT WORTH, Texas — “We’ve been on strike going on nine weeks. We have a lot of union support, but we need more,” Rick Miedema, secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 997 on strike at Molson Coors big brewery here, told Socialist…


Support Israel as refuge from Jew-hatred and pogroms!

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024

The reactionary clerical regime in Iran had hoped the Oct. 7 anti-Jewish pogrom it organized with Hamas, along with Israel’s response to defend itself, would reverse moves by governments in Muslim-majority countries toward normalized relations with Israel. The opposite is…



Memphis BCTGM workers return to work, fight goes on

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — After almost 10 months of a hard-fought strike battle, members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 390G at International Flavors and Fragrances here decided March 28 to return to work and continue their…


The fight against Jew-hatred and pogroms in the imperialist epoch

Stakes for the international working class
Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024
Pogroms, yesterday and today. Top, Hamas parades Jewish man murdered by death squad Oct. 7 past cheering supporters in Gaza City. Massacre in southern Israel was deadliest single attack on Jews since Hitler’s “Final Solution.” Bottom, using what Bolshevik leader V.I. Lenin called “the most savage and furious methods,” tsarist-inspired pogromists in 1906 murdered 80 Jews in Belostok, in what is now Poland. Photo shows Jewish family after assault.

Below is the opening chapter by Socialist Workers Party leader Dave Prince of the new book, The Fight Against Jew-Hatred and Pogroms in the Imperialist Epoch: Stakes for the International Working Class. Other chapters feature writings by revolutionary Marxist leaders…