SWP candidates in NJ speak out against Jew-hatred

Vol. 88/No. 9 - March 4, 2024

WAYNE, N.J. — A debate continued at the Feb. 7 Wayne City Council meeting here over a resolution the council had adopted Dec. 20 defending Israel’s war against Hamas, calling for the release of all the hostages held by Hamas…


Navalny killed in Russian prison, opposition grows to Ukraine war

Vol. 88/No. 9 - March 4, 2024
Memorial at Russian Embassy in Berlin, Feb. 18. Banner by Pussy Riot members denounces Kremlin murderers. Two days earlier, Russian authorities announced that Alexei Navalny, prominent critic of Putin regime, war in Ukraine, died in Russian gulag prison. Inset, Marina Ovsyannikova, who was fired for protesting March 2022 on live Russian TV against Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, holds sign at Berlin gathering quoting Navalny, “Don’t give up.”

The Russian government informed Alexei Navalny’s family Feb. 16 that he had died in prison. Navalny, a well-known critic of the government in Moscow, had been incarcerated in one of Russia’s harsh prison colonies in the Arctic Circle. The announcement…


Join the fight for workers power and socialism!

Vol. 88/No. 9 - March 4, 2024
Flight attendants rally at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Feb. 13. SWP campaign explains how workers transform ourselves in the class struggle.

Statement issued by John Studer, Socialist Workers Party national campaign director, Feb. 20. Socialist Workers Party candidates Rachele Fruit for president and Margaret Trowe for vice president, along with SWP candidates across the country, point the way forward for the…


UK Amazon workers strike for higher wages, union recognition

Vol. 88/No. 9 - March 4, 2024
Striking workers march in fight for union at Amazon warehouse in Coventry, England, Feb. 13.

COVENTRY, England — Some 200 warehouse workers and their supporters marched and rallied outside the Amazon plant here Feb. 13. They were part of over 1,000 members of the General Municipal and Boilermakers union who struck for better wages and…


‘Che Guevara on Economics and Politics’ on road to socialism

Vol. 88/No. 9 - March 4, 2024
Che Guevara, second from left, at Cuban factory. He discussed importance of discipline, goals of the revolution and, above all, communist consciousness and work as social responsibility.

This is the Editor’s Note by Mary-Alice Waters to the new Pathfinder Press expanded edition of Che Guevara on Economics and Politics in the Transition to Socialism by Carlos Tablada. Tablada received the Special Prize from the Cuban cultural institution…




‘App’ drivers in US hold first nationwide strike for pay, rights

Vol. 88/No. 9 - March 4, 2024
Uber, Lyft and DoorDash workers rally in Chicago Feb. 14. First nationwide strike by app drivers in U.S. was joined by drivers in Toronto, Vancouver and Winnipeg in Canada.

Thousands of Uber, Lyft and DoorDash drivers went on a one-day strike on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, in more than a dozen U.S. cities, and at some airports, including Chicago, Miami, San Francisco and Newark, New Jersey. Workers turned off…


Israeli gov’t gives Hamas an ultimatum: Free hostages!

Defend Israel as a refuge for Jews! Fight Jew-hatred!
Vol. 88/No. 9 - March 4, 2024
Palestinians take flour from aid truck in Gaza City Feb. 19, a few days after Hamas cops shot and killed youth in Rafah when he took an aid package, sparking protests against thug group.

The Israeli government gave Hamas leaders a deadline of Ramadan in early March to release all the roughly 100 hostages it still holds captive. Otherwise, it said, the Israel Defense Forces will launch a major offensive on Rafah, on the…