Month: May 2024

Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, fund March 9-May 14 (week eight)

Castro: ‘Cancel Third World Debt!’

Fidel Castro’s 1985 campaign to unite underdeveloped countries to repudiate their unpayable foreign debts peaked with a Latin American “continental dialogue” in Havana July 30-Aug. 3. Over 1,000 delegates from 17 countries participated. The gathering had been preceded by conventions…

Help take Militant Fighting Fund over the top!

As of May 8, some $136,339 has been collected toward the Militant Fighting Fund. With one week left of the campaign to raise $165,000, supporters around the country are stepping up efforts to meet the goal. The Socialist Workers Party…

Fertility rate plummets in the US, product of capitalism’s crisis today

The birthrate in the U.S. declined to an average of 1.62 births per woman in 2023, the lowest rate recorded since the government began tracking it in the 1930s. The root causes are the squeeze on workers’ living standards and…

‘Workers need our own party to fight to take political power’

Break with the capitalist parties, build a labor party MIAMI — The culmination of Rachele Fruit’s campaign stop here was a public meeting at the Socialist Workers campaign headquarters here on May 5. To begin with, you have to start…

Campus occupations back Hamas, spread Jew-hatred

Liberal media across the country have attempted to paint occupations and other actions organized in defense of Hamas on elite campuses in the U.S. as a new, progressive mass movement in the tradition of the civil rights movement and fight…

‘I’ve decided to sign up to endorse Rachele Fruit’

Supporters of the campaign of Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, are introducing the party’s working-class program far and wide, urging working people to endorse the campaign, break with the capitalist parties and take steps toward…

Defend Israel’s right to exist as a refuge from Jew-hatred

Israeli tanks and troops entered Rafah May 6, taking control over the border crossing on the Gaza side of the Egyptian border, attacking other military targets and taking out 20 Hamas troops. Israeli forces dropped tens of thousands of leaflets…

Chernobyl disaster, Moscow’s war on Ukraine: disdain for the working class

When Moscow’s military invaded Ukraine in February 2022, assured by President Vladimir Putin of an easy victory, they were rapidly repelled from Kyiv, the capital, as working people put up fierce resistance. But 60 miles to the north Russian troops…

Australia’s rulers blocked entry to Jews before, during, after WWII

SYDNEY — The deadly Oct. 7 pogrom by Hamas and Tehran against Jews in Israel triggered a wave of Jew-hatred across Australia. Hamas supporters here celebrated the bloodbath Oct. 8 and 9 and chanted against Jews. Physical assaults, verbal abuse…