Tehran’s aerial barrage marks new stage in assault on Israel

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024
Reactionary Iranian capitalist regime launched 170 drones, 150 missiles in massive barrage against Israel April 13. Above is wreckage of Iranian ballistic missile. Israel has an unconditional right to take all steps needed to stop Tehran’s attacks, future Hamas pogroms against Jews.

The barrage of 320 drones and missiles unleashed by Tehran April 13 is the first attack on Israel launched directly from Iranian soil. It is a deliberate and dangerous escalation of the reactionary Iranian regime’s decades of assaults on Israel…



25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024

May 3, 1999 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — David Sanes, a resident of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, was killed April 19 when two U.S. Navy warplanes on a training mission for the U.S. bombing campaign against Yugoslavia dropped…


Help Militant fund drive

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024

As this issue goes to press, $82,963 has been received toward the goal of $165,000 for the Militant Fighting Fund, which covers the expenses of the paper. The Militant depends entirely on contributions from working people who value its reporting.…


Quebec farmers rally against gov’t policies

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024

VAUDREUIL-DORION, Quebec — More than 65 tractors, with their front bumpers sporting signs such as “Feeding your family is our profession,” came from throughout the region to join a rally of over 300 farmers and their supporters here April 10.…


SWP campaigns to win ballot status in New Jersey

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024
Tyrique Blount in Bloomfield, New Jersey, signs April 15 to put SWP presidential ticket and Joanne Kuniansky, right, the SWP candidate for U.S. Senate, on the ballot.

BLOOMFIELD, N.J. — Israel’s right to exist and to defend itself as a refuge for Jews, and the importance to the working class everywhere of the fight against Jew-hatred were central to discussions that Socialist Workers Party campaigners had knocking…



Erdogan regime faces widespread election defeats all across Turkey

Vol. 88/No. 16 - April 22, 2024
Thousands of Kurdish national rights supporters rally in Van, in eastern Turkey, April 5. Protests forced seating of Kurdish opposition candidate Erdogan tried to bar from office.

The two-decades-long domination of Turkish politics by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was shaken March 31 when his Islamist-based Justice and Development Party (AKP) suffered an unexpected and unprecedented defeat in nationwide municipal elections. For the first time the secular opposition…


Tehran admits ‘strategic role’ in deadly Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom

Vol. 88/No. 16 - April 22, 2024
Palestinian Muslims praying peacefully at Al-Aqsa Mosque during month of Ramadan, including on last day April 5, above, rejecting Hamas’ call for confrontations against Israel.

The Coalition Council of Islamic Revolution Forces, one of the key political groups in Iran’s parliament, admitted April 3 that Tehran played a “strategic role … in planning and executing” the Oct. 7 pogrom in Israel, giving the lie to…


Rachele Fruit campaign wins wide interest from workers

Vol. 88/No. 16 - April 22, 2024
Uber drive Paul Brown, left, gets Militant subscription from SWP member Dan Fein April 1 at O’Hare airport. Brown liked idea Fruit raises of building a labor party based on the unions.

The Socialist Workers Party campaign of Rachele Fruit for U.S. president is at the heart of an eight-week international drive by the party and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K. to get out the word about the campaign…