Cuban consul in Montreal: ‘Revolution sets an example’

Vol. 88/No. 5 - February 5, 2024
From left, Sean O’Donoghue, secretary of the Quebec-Cuba Solidarity Roundtable; Communist League member Philippe Tessier; and Angélica María Fuentes, Cuba’s consul in Montreal, addressing Jan. 20 meeting celebrating the 65th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.

MONTREAL — “Jan. 1 marked the 65th anniversary of the victory of the rebels in Cuba, who were fighting to build a better society based on respect and full dignity of man,” Angélica María Fuentes, Cuba’s consul in Montreal, told…


German farmers clog Berlin, protest rising prices

Vol. 88/No. 5 - February 5, 2024
German farmers clog Berlin, protest rising prices

Some 5,000 tractors and 30,000 protesters brought Berlin’s city center to a standstill Jan. 15 as farmers protested rising prices and German government plans to cut agricultural fuel subsidies, above. Arriving overnight from across the country, farmers parking tractors nose-to-tail…



Houthi clan in Yemen was built on hatred of Jews

Vol. 88/No. 5 - February 5, 2024

Missile attacks launched by Houthi forces in Yemen on shipping in the Red Sea are aimed at weakening Israel. They hope to get Washington to step up pressure on Israel’s rulers to call a cease-fire in Gaza, putting an end…


Liberal media, left use misquotes to attack Israel

Vol. 88/No. 5 - February 5, 2024

Articles in the liberal media and by the middle-class left claim that key Israeli government officials admit their genocidal aim is to wipe out the Palestinians in Gaza. There’s just one small problem. The quotes they use are not what…


Join SWP in fight against Jew-hatred, to advance working-class struggles

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024
Lea Sherman, right, SWP candidate for U.S. Congress from New Jersey, campaigns at Jan. 12 “Bring Them Home” action at U.N. to demand return of hostages seized by Hamas. Sponsored by Jewish organizations, it drew over 2,500 people, including high school student contingents.

Socialist Workers Party members in Washington, D.C., called on area unions to condemn a Jew-hating attack on holiday displays in the Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore Dec. 23.  Lights were torn from the front fence of Rabbi Moshe Moskowitz’s house. He…



As immigration spikes, workers look to unify the working class

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024
Farmworkers harvesting onions near Alamo, Texas. The SWP calls for amnesty for all workers living in the U.S. regardless of where they come from. Overcoming the divisions between immigrant and native-born workers is essential to beating back attacks by the bosses.

FORT WORTH, Texas — Over 300,000 immigrants crossed the southwest border of the U.S. last month, the highest number ever recorded. In one week in December some 12,000 migrants crossed the Texas border with Mexico at Eagle Pass.   Last…


Panel blown off Boeing airplane shows need to end profit system

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024
Door-size panel tore off Alaska Airlines plane Jan. 5, forcing emergency landing in Portland, Oregon. Threat to passengers, crews is a result of the bosses’ insatiable drive for profits.

The near disaster when a door-sized panel on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 jet ripped off in midflight Jan. 5 exposes once again how the bosses’ drive for profits above all else comes at the expense of safety…


Prosecution of Israel in the World Court is a frame-up

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024
Jews deported by train from Hungary arrive at Auschwitz death camp in Poland in 1944. In the Holocaust, Nazi capitalist rulers in Germany and their allies killed 6 million Jews, a systematic, genocidal state-sponsored mass murder, the scope of which no other people have ever faced.

The South African government is seeking to speak for all those who oppose the existence of Israel. It went before the United Nation’s World Court Jan. 11 to charge Israel with committing genocide against the Palestinian people. The accusation stands…