NY dine-in theater workers strike for first union contract

Vol. 89/No. 11 - March 24, 2025
Workers at Alamo Drafthouse, members of United Auto Workers Local 2179, walked off the job Feb. 14. They voted in the union in the fall of 2023, but are still fighting for a contract.

NEW YORK — Loud chants of “Union power, worker strong!” echoed up and down the street in front of the Alamo Drafthouse dine-in theater in Lower Manhattan March 7. Car drivers honked in support and passersby stopped to take a…


Lively exchange at Havana book launch

Vol. 89/No. 11 - March 24, 2025
Audience member joins discussion at presentation of Cosmetics, Fashion, and the Exploitation of Women at Havana International Book Fair March 18. Foreground, Gen. Teté Puebla and Commander Víctor Dreke.

HAVANA — “How do capitalism’s cosmetics and fashion ‘industries’ play on the emotional, sexual and economic insecurities of women and adolescents to generate profits?” That question was at the heart of a lively exchange here among panelists and audience members…



ACLU joins fight to overturn ban on the ‘Militant’ in Florida prisons

Vol. 89/No. 11 - March 24, 2025

Florida state prison authorities informed the Militant  that the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee would hold an initial hearing March 6 to discuss the impoundment of the Militant’s Jan. 20, 2025, issue at the Santa Rosa Correctional Institution…



Jews and Israel face continuing threats from Hamas, Tehran

Vol. 89/No. 11 - March 24, 2025
Jabalia, Gaza, Feb. 21. Hamas’ placement of its tunnels, command centers and weapons caches underneath residences, schools, mosques and hospitals is responsible for destruction in Gaza. “We’ve had enough of what Hamas put us through,” one Gaza resident said.

Both Hamas and Tehran are using the unstable ceasefire in Gaza to try to recover from the blows Israel has dealt them and to advance their long-term aim of destroying Israel and all the Jews there. Some 17 months after…


High prices keep grinding away at the working class

Vol. 89/No. 11 - March 24, 2025

Soaring prices for some groceries and persistently high prices for everything at the store continue to squeeze the conditions of life for working people, every time they have to stop by the supermarket to get goods. While monthly price rises…


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Vol. 89/No. 11 - March 24, 2025
“Working people need to run society,” Kevin Dwire, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Minneapolis, told Nedifa when he knocked on her door March 8. “I agree,” she replied. “It’s great you’re going around speaking with people face to face about things like this.”

There is a revolutionary working-class voice in the 2025 elections.  The Socialist Workers Party is launching a spring campaign to introduce its national slate of 2025 candidates, expand the reach of the Militant  and books by SWP leaders and other…


SWP candidate speaks out on Israel’s right to exist

Vol. 89/No. 11 - March 24, 2025

TEANECK, N.J. — Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New Jersey, joined a protest of some 25 people defending Israel’s right to exist as a refuge from Jew-hatred and pogroms held outside the Marriott Hotel here March…


UK policy in Mideast: Defend British interests, not the Jews

Vol. 89/No. 11 - March 24, 2025
British commander of Transjordan’s Arab Legion, John Bagot Glubb, right, in July 1948. For decades London opposed establishment of Israel. As Israel declared statehood in 1948, London backed war launched by reactionary regimes of Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan, Lebanon and Syria.

LONDON — Labour Party Prime Minister Keir Starmer has welcomed Israel’s ceasefire as “desperately needed to end the suffering in Gaza.” For months Starmer has pressured the Israeli government to end the war before Hamas was destroyed and before Israel…