25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024

May 3, 1999 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — David Sanes, a resident of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, was killed April 19 when two U.S. Navy warplanes on a training mission for the U.S. bombing campaign against Yugoslavia dropped…



Tehran’s aerial barrage marks new stage in assault on Israel

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024
Reactionary Iranian capitalist regime launched 170 drones, 150 missiles in massive barrage against Israel April 13. Above is wreckage of Iranian ballistic missile. Israel has an unconditional right to take all steps needed to stop Tehran’s attacks, future Hamas pogroms against Jews.

The barrage of 320 drones and missiles unleashed by Tehran April 13 is the first attack on Israel launched directly from Iranian soil. It is a deliberate and dangerous escalation of the reactionary Iranian regime’s decades of assaults on Israel…


LA, Oakland SWP speak out against Tehran’s war moves

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024
“Fight against Jew-hatred is a life-or-death question for the working class worldwide,” Candace Wagner, SWP candidate for Congress from Pittsburgh, told rally in defense of Israel March 31.

LOS ANGELES — “Yesterday and last night Tehran launched 320 drones, ballistic and cruise missiles at Israel. Almost all of them were shot down,” said Socialist Workers Party National Committee member Norton Sandler to an April 14 meeting here. Sandler…


US rulers form new Asia bloc against Beijing

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024
Above, warships from Philippines, foreground, Japan, Australia and U.S. sail in formation off Philippines coast April 7. Inset, China Coast Guard ship fires water cannon at vessel taking supplies to Philippine-occupied shoal in disputed region of South China Sea March 5, area also known as West Philippine Sea.

President Joseph Biden hosted a first-ever joint meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., at the White House, April 11. The three government heads announced increased military and economic cooperation. To defend U.S. ruling-class…




The fight against Jew-hatred and pogroms in the imperialist epoch

Stakes for the international working class
Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024
Pogroms, yesterday and today. Top, Hamas parades Jewish man murdered by death squad Oct. 7 past cheering supporters in Gaza City. Massacre in southern Israel was deadliest single attack on Jews since Hitler’s “Final Solution.” Bottom, using what Bolshevik leader V.I. Lenin called “the most savage and furious methods,” tsarist-inspired pogromists in 1906 murdered 80 Jews in Belostok, in what is now Poland. Photo shows Jewish family after assault.

Below is the opening chapter by Socialist Workers Party leader Dave Prince of the new book, The Fight Against Jew-Hatred and Pogroms in the Imperialist Epoch: Stakes for the International Working Class. Other chapters feature writings by revolutionary Marxist leaders…



Rachele Fruit campaign wins wide interest from workers

Vol. 88/No. 16 - April 22, 2024
Uber drive Paul Brown, left, gets Militant subscription from SWP member Dan Fein April 1 at O’Hare airport. Brown liked idea Fruit raises of building a labor party based on the unions.

The Socialist Workers Party campaign of Rachele Fruit for U.S. president is at the heart of an eight-week international drive by the party and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K. to get out the word about the campaign…