Blows to Hamas advance fight against Jew-hatred

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024
Hamas built tunnels, command posts under hospitals, schools, mosques, homes to maximize civilian casualties. Left, diagram of tunnel underneath Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Right, Palestinians leaving Rafah after Israel let them know plans for military offensive.

Israeli officials are preparing an offensive to eliminate Hamas’ last remaining stronghold — Rafah, near the Egyptian/Gaza border — after dealing major blows to the Tehran-backed group’s command structure and underground bases in Gaza City and Khan Younis. Demonstrating that…


Supreme Court questions moves to throw Trump off the ballot

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024

The U.S. Supreme Court held oral arguments Feb. 8 on former President Donald Trump’s appeal of a Colorado high court ruling throwing him off the Republican primary ballot there. A clear majority of the justices voiced strong doubts about the…


Rail unions push for steps needed to prevent more East Palestines

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — For rail workers, “East Palestine was no surprise,” Jared Cassity, director of safety for the SMART-TD rail workers union, told a video conference of rail union officers two days before the Feb. 3 one-year anniversary of…





Moscow bars candidate opposing Putin, Ukraine war

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024

In the largest anti-war manifestation since Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine almost two years ago, some 200,000 people waited in lines stretching for city blocks all across the country in January to sign petitions to put Boris Nadezhdin on…


Watershed in world politics
New wars and social crises are inevitable

How Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, Hamas’ Oct. 7 slaughter of Jews upended the capitalist ‘world order’
Vol. 88/No. 7 - February 19, 2024
Houthi helicopter hijacking cargo ship Galaxy Leader in Red Sea Nov. 19. After Houthi attacks on ships in January, U.S. and U.K. forces mounted airstrikes against their bases in Yemen.

Working people today face a world of deepening capitalist disorder and escalating competition over profits, markets and political influence, as well as a deepening war drive gripping all the major rival world powers. Two recent watershed developments — Moscow’s 2022…


Newton teachers make gains in spirited strike, contract battle

Vol. 88/No. 7 - February 19, 2024

Striking teachers and aides in Newton, Massachusetts, returned to their classrooms Feb. 5 after winning a new contract with solid gains in wages and benefits. Their union, the Newton Teachers Association, didn’t get everything it wanted, but by going on…


The fight for political rights is at the center of U.S. politics

Vol. 88/No. 7 - February 19, 2024

Freedom of speech, assembly and worship and other rights working people need and use were won as a result of revolutionary struggles — the War of Independence, the Second American Revolution that overturned slavery and in many class battles since…