‘NY Post’ supplement is useful tool to fight Jew-hatred, pogroms

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024
‘NY Post’ supplement is useful tool to fight Jew-hatred, pogroms

NEW YORK — The New York Post, the paper with the largest daily circulation in the city, printed a special 12-page supplement wrapped around its Oct. 7 edition marking one year since Hamas’ Jew-hating pogrom in Israel. This powerful supplement…


Bosses push automation to slash jobs and safety, and boost profits

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024
Automated straddle carriers have replaced drivers on Los Angeles docks. Bosses seek automation to boost output, profits by eliminating jobs. With working class in power, benefits of technology would flow broadly to working people, with jobs, pay and safety protected.

After three days on the picket line, the International Longshoremen’s Association suspended its strike at East and Gulf coast ports, extending the current contract to Jan. 15 after winning a 62% wage increase over six years. But the sharpest point…



Memphis cops convicted in deadly beating of Tyre Nichols

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024

Three former Memphis, Tennessee, police officers, Demetrius Haley, Tadarrius Bean and Justin Smith, were found guilty Oct. 3 on charges of federal witness tampering in the brutal beating death of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old FedEx worker. Haley was convicted of…


‘Social solidarity is moral basis of Cuba’s socialist revolution’

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024
Peasant women learn to read, write at Ana Betancourt school in Havana in 1960. Under Fidel Castro’s leadership, all widows and children — whether those of rebel combatants or soldiers of former Batista dictatorship — were schooled, treated equally. The moral foundation of the socialist revolution was equality for all.

The Spanish edition of  Marianas in Combat: Teté Puebla and the Mariana Grajales Women’s Platoon in Cuba’s Revolutionary War, 1956-58 is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. Puebla was an officer in the first all-women platoon in…


Endorse, build the SWP’s 2024 campaign!

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024

For the growing number of workers repelled by the Democratic and Republican parties and seeking ways to strengthen working-class interests and our unions, there is an alternative in 2024. The Socialist Workers Party is running Rachele Fruit for president, Dennis…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024

November 1, 1999 WASHINGTON, D.C. — “No deportations”; “Amnesty now”; “No more arrests on the job.” These were among the most common signs as 5,000 people marched through the capital to demand full rights for undocumented workers and to oppose…



As vote nears, Democrats push attacks on constitutional rights

Vol. 88/No. 39 - October 21, 2024
Daniel Shays’ rebels are fired on by Massachusetts militiamen in 1787. Struggles by farmers and artisans coming out of First American Revolution and by working people of all skin colors during Civil War, Reconstruction, won constitutional protections that workers need today.

The fight for the White House between the bosses’ two major parties — the Democrats and Republicans — has entered its final month, with Kamala Harris, the liberal media and the Joseph Biden Justice Department escalating their frenetic claims that…