Landlords say ‘era of falling rents’ is now over, watch out!

Vol. 89/No. 9 - March 10, 2025
Renters lined up outside Harris County Courthouse in Houston, Jan. 7, where 759 eviction cases were scheduled to be heard that day by one judge. Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Fort Worth, calls for a moratorium on evictions, cut the rents!

“The era of falling apartment rents looks to be nearly over,” a Wall Street Journal article announced Feb. 14, saying that “a landlord-friendly era” is about to open. But there has been no “era of falling rents” for working people,…


Jews in Brooklyn outmobilize pro-Hamas thugs

Vol. 89/No. 9 - March 10, 2025

About 200 supporters of Hamas and fellow Jew-hating allies provocatively targeted an event in the heavily Jewish Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, Feb. 18, but got an unexpected surprise. They were outnumbered by opponents of Jew-hatred. The anti-Jewish…


SWP: ‘US military out of Korea!’

Vol. 89/No. 9 - March 10, 2025

On Feb. 14, the Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialists sent revolutionary greetings to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on the occasion of the country’s Feb. 16 national holiday. “Washington’s recent docking at the Port of Busan on the…


‘The party must be proletarian in program and composition’

Vol. 89/No. 9 - March 10, 2025
Unionists at Bethlehem Steel shipbuilding yard in May 1941 during joint strike in San Francisco of 1,200 AFL and 900 CIO machinists against wage cuts. The Socialist Workers Party fought for labor movement to champion opposition to the U.S. rulers’ drive to war.

In Defense of Marxism by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Trotsky, a central leader of the Russian Revolution and the Communist International under V.I. Lenin, fought in the 1930s to maintain Lenin’s proletarian…


Cuba’s aid to Africa liberation fight is theme of Havana book fair

Vol. 89/No. 9 - March 10, 2025
Hundreds of Cuban military cadets, above, attended Feb. 15 presentation of book, The Unstoppable One, about Gen. Ramón Espinosa, a hero of Cuba’s internationalist mission in Angola that defeated apartheid invasion. Right, Víctor Dreke a historic leader of the Cuban Revolution and Cuba’s missions in Africa, speaks at “Africa in Our Veins” event at book fair the day before. Dreke cited Fidel Castro, who always said that “to be an internationalist is to pay our debt to humanity.”

      HAVANA — The Cuban Revolution’s decadeslong history of aiding freedom struggles in Africa is a central theme of this year’s Havana International Book Fair. Several featured book presentations have addressed this internationalist record, and South Africa is…


Fight prison ban on ‘Militant’ in Florida, Phoenix

Vol. 89/No. 9 - March 10, 2025

Two Militant subscribers who are prisoners at the Santa Rosa Correctional Institution in Milton, Florida, notified the Militant that issue no. 2, dated Jan. 20, 2025, has been impounded there. But a closer read of the impoundment notice shows prison…



Teamster drivers go out on strike against 10 Roads Express bosses

Vol. 89/No. 9 - March 10, 2025
Teamsters Local 727 members picket 10 Roads Express in Park Ridge, Illinois, Feb. 23. More than 500 truck drivers in eight states are on strike against company’s demand for wage cuts.

WARRENDALE, Pa. — More than 500 Teamster truck drivers in eight states went on strike against 10 Roads Express Feb. 18 in a fight against boss demands for wage cuts. The freight trucking company, which employs some 2,600 drivers, is…


Hamas savagery shows need to defend Israel as refuge for Jews

Vol. 89/No. 9 - March 10, 2025
Hamas parades coffins of dead Israeli hostages Oded Lifshitz, Shiri Bibas and her two children, Kfir and Ariel, Feb. 20 in Khan Younis, Gaza, before returning bodies to Israel. Caskets say “Date of arrest” Oct. 7. Banner on stage threatens “Al-Aqsa flood was our promise” to launch more pogroms killing Jews.

Hamas’ use of cruelly choreographed hostage release ceremonies — where hostages who have been tortured and starved for over a year are forced to thank their captors for their “good treatment” — show the Jew-hating, anti-working-class character of the Nazi-like…


Protests: ‘End Moscow’s war, back Ukraine sovereignty!’

Vol. 89/No. 9 - March 10, 2025
Thousands rallied in Washington, D.C., above, Feb. 22, and in over 700 cities in U.S. and around the world in support of Ukraine’s sovereignty three years after Moscow’s invasion.

WASHINGTON — Some 3,000 defenders of Ukraine’s sovereignty rallied here two days before the third anniversary of Moscow’s Feb. 24, 2022, bloody invasion and attempt to conquer Ukraine. Similar events were held around the world, including in Russia. Participants came…