‘Jewish News’: SWP backs Israel’s fight against Jew-hatred

Vol. 89/No. 5 - February 10, 2025

“Why the Socialist Workers Party is defying the far left on Israel,” is the headline of a Jan. 21 article by contributing editor Dan Pine in the Jewish News of Northern California. The paper, first published in 1895, reaches tens…



Join fight against Phoenix jail ban on the ‘Militant’!

Vol. 89/No. 5 - February 10, 2025

Join our fight to overturn the unconstitutional ban of Militant issue no. 42 by authorities at the Lower Buckeye Jail in Phoenix — the largest detention facility in Arizona. Letters have been arriving at the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office from…




New US gov’t takes shape amid growing conflicts, wars

Vol. 89/No. 5 - February 10, 2025

Since Donald Trump took office as president again Jan. 20, he has moved to advance his “Make America Great Again” nationalist agenda and, at the same time, to promote his pledge that his plans will mean a pro-worker White House.…


Working class responds to LA fires disaster with solidarity

Vol. 89/No. 5 - February 10, 2025
Roger Dagoberto Cruz, left, a gutter installer, told Eric Simpson, SWP candidate for mayor of Oakland, that when work is slow he volunteers at the local job center to help others get work.

ALTADENA, Calif. — “Under capitalism, every time a disaster happens, the bosses and their politicians merely recreate the same conditions for it to happen again,” said Eric Simpson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Oakland mayor and a union factory worker,…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 89/No. 5 - February 10, 2025

February 7, 2000 CHARLESTON, South Carolina — Cops in full riot gear attacked an early morning march to the waterfront by hundreds of members of the International Longshoremen’s Association Jan. 20. Eight of the unionists are now facing frame-up charges…


Israel, the Holocaust and Oct. 7 pogrom

Vol. 89/No. 5 - February 10, 2025

The stakes for workers in the U.S., the Middle East and worldwide are enormous in backing Israel’s unfinished battle to defeat Hamas and Hezbollah once and for all, and to destroy the ability of the reactionary capitalist regime in Iran…


For Israel’s defeat of Hamas, end to Tehran’s nuclear threat

Vol. 89/No. 5 - February 10, 2025
Rafael Hasid, Israeli owner of Miriam Restaurant in Brooklyn. He left up Jan. 25 antisemitic graffiti so that people can “see that things like that happen.” Tehran-backed Hamas war to destroy Israel has sparked rise in anti-Jewish violence worldwide, a deadly threat to all workers.

The unstable ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, and the release of more Israeli hostages, along with Israel’s freeing of hundreds of Hamas thugs ready to return to duty, does not resolve the key challenge facing the people of Israel —…