Campus occupations back Hamas, spread Jew-hatred

Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024

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…


Help take Militant Fighting Fund over the top!

Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024

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…


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

Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024
Rachele Fruit, right, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, campaigns at Little Haiti Book Festival in Miami May 5. She spoke to crowd of 300, with translation into Creole.

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…


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

Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024

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

Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024
Gazans arrive in Khan Younis May 6, heeding Israeli instructions to evacuate east Rafah and not get caught in Israeli attack on Hamas, which hides its bases in residential areas. IDF distributed thousands of flyers, sent text messages urging evacuation to avoid civilian casualties.

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…




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

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024
Crowd of 1,000 outside Sydney Opera House Oct. 9 celebrating Tehran-backed Hamas’ deadly pogrom in Israel two days earlier. Some demonstrators set off flares, chanted “Gas the Jews.”

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…


Crisis of capitalism rattles regimes in Latin America, hits toilers hard

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024

Amid the economic and political crisis of capitalism, accelerated by Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and the Tehran-backed Hamas pogrom against Jews in Israel Oct. 7, conflicts and threats between regimes across Latin America have grown. This was highlighted in an…


Rail workers in Canada fight for a new contract, safe work conditions

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024
During 2018 strike by 3,000 rail workers, unionists picketed Canadian Pacific in Montreal. Some 9,300 unionists at Canada’s two biggest rail companies are voting on strike action in May.

MONTREAL — Some 9,300 train conductors, yard workers, train engineers and dispatchers at Canada’s two biggest rail companies — Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Kansas City — are fighting for safe working conditions and livable work schedules. Their contract…