Despite pressure from US rulers, Israel fights on to defeat Hamas

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024
Railroad workers rally outside company office in Kerman province, Iran, May 19, protest firing of co-workers, demand better wages and working conditions. Protests, strikes by workers continue despite regime’s attempt to mobilize support for destruction of Israel as refuge for Jews.

Standing up to increasing pressure from capitalist officials around the world — from the White House to the European Union and the United Nations — for Israel to end its war without dismantling Hamas, Israeli forces continue to strike blows…


‘Militant’ files appeal on ban in Florida prison

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024

On May 23 David Goldstein, the Militant’s attorney and member of the prominent civil liberties law firm Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky and Lieberman, filed an appeal with the Florida Department of Corrections challenging a ban on issue no. 17 by…



New Caledonia protests hit push by Paris to reinforce French rule

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024
Thousands of Kanak protesters march behind banner, “No to colonialism,” in Noumea, New Caledonia, March 27. After actions paralyzed capital May 13, Paris sent in extra troops, police.

SYDNEY — Over the past six months, Kanaks and other supporters of independence in New Caledonia, a French colony and Pacific island nation east of Australia and north of New Zealand, have staged protests. They are opposing moves by Paris…


UK election reveals depth of crisis facing the British rulers

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024
Peter Clifford, fourth from left, with fellow rail workers, joins picket line of striking nurses in Manchester, U.K., Jan. 23, 2023. Clifford is running as Communist League candidate in July 4 general election. CL says workers need a party of their own to lead fight to take political power.

LONDON — “I like that the Communist League says workers need our own party,” Hussein Mohammed, a member of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union in Manchester, told Peter Clifford. Clifford is the CL’s candidate in the Manchester Rusholme constituency…



25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024

June 14, 1999 President William Clinton and NATO commanders are continuing their brutal assault on the working class of Yugoslavia. We urge our readers to join in actions demanding an immediate halt to the bombing and the removal of all…


FBI is the capitalist rulers’ political police

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024

Below is an excerpt from the Socialist Workers Party 2022 Political Resolution, printed in The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward. It describes the consolidation of the FBI as the rulers’ main…


Imperialist war deepens political crises, revolutionary prospects

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024
Meeting of 800 demanding release of 18 members of SWP and Minneapolis Teamsters union, who were framed up and imprisoned in 1944-45 for opposing imperialist rulers’ war drive.

The Socialist Workers Party in World War II: Writings and Speeches, 1940-43 by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for June. In his Oct. 2, 1942, report, “The workers and the Second World War,” excerpted…