‘Gag’ order on Trump is attack on free speech

Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024

For a second time, Judge Juan Merchan threatened to throw presidential candidate Donald Trump in jail for his public comments. Merchan’s assault on free speech came in response to a prosecutor’s motion for sanctions against Trump for an alleged violation…



Castro: ‘Cancel Third World Debt!’

Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024

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…


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…