Refugees in Australia protest, demand right to visas

Vol. 88/No. 35 - September 23, 2024

SYDNEY — Over a hundred refugees and supporters of refugee rights gathered at Dorothy Reserve in Bankstown here Aug. 31, protesting conditions faced by asylum-seekers on longterm bridging visas in Australia. They called on the government to grant them permanent…


Anniversary of Zhina Amini death nears amid uptick in protests in Iran

Vol. 88/No. 35 - September 23, 2024

The Iranian government has been arresting opponents, especially in the Kurdish region, hoping to head off demonstrations on the second anniversary of the death of Zhina Amini. The young Kurdish woman died Sept. 16, 2022, after she was arrested in…


Russian pensioner attacked for anti-war views wins support

Vol. 88/No. 35 - September 23, 2024

Dmitry Grinchiy, an 87-year-old pensioner, was recently assaulted by two hefty men on a Moscow bus for muttering about the former Wagner Group mercenaries and against the war in Ukraine. The assailants then forced the driver to take them to…


Malcolm X led fight for Black liberation and workers power

Vol. 88/No. 35 - September 23, 2024
Malcolm X speaking at July 1962 rally in New York City to back fight for union recognition by hospital workers. Malcolm praised Local 1199 President Leon Davis, who was thrown in jail for 30 days because he refused to obey a court order to call off 56-day hospital workers strike.

The French edition of Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power by Jack Barnes is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. Below is an excerpt from a talk by Barnes, national secretary of the…


Defending protections in US Constitution

Vol. 88/No. 35 - September 23, 2024

The Democrats yearslong efforts to use the FBI and frame-up court cases to bring down Donald Trump pose serious challenges to the working class. In the course of their attacks, and counterattacks by the Republicans, blows are being dealt to…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 35 - September 23, 2024

September 27, 1999 Working people around the world should oppose the imperialist intervention under way in East Timor. Its aim is to advance imperialist domination in the region and has nothing to do with helping the people of East Timor…


Letters

Vol. 88/No. 35 - September 23, 2024

David Segal David Segal, a longtime friend and supporter of the Socialist Workers Party, died Aug. 27 after a long illness. He was 79 years old. Segal, who lived in New York City, regularly attended Militant Labor Forums, participating in…


‘The working class needs its own party, a party of labor’

Vol. 88/No. 34 - September 16, 2024
Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, speaks at public meeting in London Aug. 24, organized by Communist League, at end of her weeklong visit to the U.K.

Rachele Fruit: ‘Workers in the US, UK face common enemy’ LONDON — Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, ended her weeklong visit to the U.K. at a public meeting here Aug. 24, organized by the Communist League’s…


Dennis Richter: ‘Back fights by truckers, all workers!’

Vol. 88/No. 34 - September 16, 2024
Dennis Richter, SWP vice presidential candidate, discusses truckers’ fight for better conditions with Shawnta Hamerter, a truck driver, at truck stop in Fort Worth, Texas, Aug. 26.

FORT WORTH, Texas — “We need to build a party of labor for all of us workers,” Dennis Richter, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, told truck driver Patrick Edgar Brooks at the Pilot truck stop here…


Rail workers battle combined forces of bosses, Canadian gov’t

Vol. 88/No. 34 - September 16, 2024

MONTREAL — “We haven’t seen a class confrontation in Canada on this scale in decades,” Philippe Tessier, a Canadian National rail conductor and Teamster union strike picket captain, told a Militant Labor Forum here Aug. 24. In the final analysis,…