Mideast showdown: Israelis fight to defend a refuge from Jew-hatred

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024
As it threatens to destroy Israel, the reactionary bourgeois regime in Tehran is worried about growing opposition among working people in Iran to its military adventures in the region. Above, teachers and retirees protest for higher wages, pensions in Tehran Oct. 13.

The Israeli government has released documents its forces captured in Gaza that provide further proof Iran’s capitalist rulers and the leadership of Hezbollah in Lebanon — despite their denials — were centrally involved in the yearslong preparations for Hamas’ Oct.…


UK food workers strike at Bakkavor enters fourth week

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024
Unite union members picket Oct. 15 demanding higher wages at Bakkavor in Spalding, England. Strikers have called solidarity march from the picket line to the town center for Oct. 22.

SPALDING, England — Morale on the picket line of strikers at food giant Bakkavor has been buoyed by 38 additional workers joining the strike and signing up for the union during the last week. Over 700 Unite members are entering…


Cuba: ‘End Washington’s economic, trade war against our revolution!’

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024
March against Washington’s embargo of Cuba, Aug. 27, 2022, in East Harlem, New York. U.S. rulers’ decades of economic aggression are aimed at strangling the socialist revolution in Cuba.

Below are excerpts from “Drop the Blockade!” a powerful report prepared by the Cuban government detailing the punishing effects of the U.S. rulers’ decadeslong economic, financial and trade embargo against Cuba’s people and socialist revolution. The report was submitted to…


Fired for joining a union, Dallas Black Dancers hold protest

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024

DALLAS — “Tear up your ticket, join our picket!” and “Dallas Black, bring them back!” were two of the spirited chants by 50 pickets backing the fired Dallas Black Dancers here Oct. 11. They were protesting at the Dallas Black…


Richter joins strike pickets in LA, builds labor solidarity

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024
Dennis Richter, left, SWP candidate for vice president, and campaign supporter Gabriel Calderon, a bakery worker, center, join UAW strike picket line at Monogram Aerospace Oct. 10.

LOS ANGELES — As part of his national campaign tour Dennis Richter, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, joined campaign supporters bringing solidarity to a number of labor struggles here. Richter joined the picket line of workers striking…


Socialist Workers Party campaign: ‘Amnesty for immigrant workers!’

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024

Confronting the U.S. rulers’ profit-driven approach to immigration is a key issue for the working class, one in which neither of the bosses’ candidates for president — Kamala Harris and Donald Trump — point any road forward.  The bosses turn…


Join drive to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ SWP campaign

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024

In the final weeks of the U.S. election campaign, supporters of the Socialist Workers Party presidential ticket of Rachele Fruit for president and Dennis Richter for vice president are finding widespread interest among working people who are drawn into  politics…



1970: When postal workers said ‘enough’ and went on strike

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024
Cartoon from March 1970 special Militant issue backing postal strike. At the time President Richard Nixon, on top of pile of letters, threatened to order the U.S. Army to deliver the mail.

Over the past two weeks, postal workers — members of the American Postal Workers Union, National Association of Letter Carriers and National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association — have organized protest actions across the country against the government, which has refused…


Hurricanes’ one-two punch causes social crisis in Florida

Vol. 88/No. 40 - October 28, 2024
Crops on Karl Butts’ farm destroyed by flooding after wind, 15 inches of rain from Hurricane Milton. Densely populated parts of Central Florida were hit by deadly tornadoes spun off from storm Oct. 9. Billions of dollars in losses were caused to farmers and other producers in region.

MIAMI — Working people in the southeastern part of the United States have been hit by two devastating hurricanes in less than two weeks. The first, Hurricane Helene, cut a swath of destruction from landfall near Tampa Bay into the…