Israelis fight a defensive war against Hamas, attacks in UN

Vol. 89/No. 35 - October 6, 2025

At the center of the debates swirling around the annual United Nations General Assembly are competing attempts by all the imperialist powers and other ruling classes to end or obstruct Israel’s defensive war against Hamas. Each power hopes to get…


Seattle meeting celebrates political life of Rashaad Ali

Vol. 89/No. 35 - October 6, 2025

SEATTLE — Rashaad Ali, a 30-year member of the Socialist Workers Party, died Aug. 27 after battling illnesses for the last year. He was 78. A celebration of his life and political contributions to building the SWP took place here…


Letters

Vol. 89/No. 35 - October 6, 2025

Remembering Pat Scott Former co-workers of Pat Scott held a memorial picnic and celebration of her life Sept. 6 in Federal Way, Washington. She had been a member of “Our Walmart,” which fought to organize a union there from 2011…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 35 - October 6, 2025

October 2, 2000 Tens of thousands of farmers, truck drivers, and fishermen have been organizing massive protests across Europe in recent weeks against skyrocketing fuel prices that are driving many of them to ruin. Blockades of fuel depots, ports, airports,…


Teamsters at Perrigo win wage increases

Vol. 89/No. 35 - October 6, 2025

NEW YORK — Two hundred Teamsters ended a 16-day strike against Perrigo Co., an over-the-counter-drug manufacturer in the Bronx. The workers voted overwhelmingly to ratify a three-year contract Sept. 18. The workers, members of Teamsters Local 210, won higher wages,…


The UN is a den of thieves, plunderers

Vol. 89/No. 35 - October 6, 2025

The speeches at the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly began Sept. 23. The central issue on the table is Israel’s fight to destroy Hamas and prevent another Holocaust. This is deeply in the interests of working people…


You can fight for ‘democracy’ in Vietnam, but not in Alabama?

Vol. 89/No. 35 - October 6, 2025
Soldiers at Con Thien, Vietnam, in December 1968. Facing racist treatment in the army and at home, Black GIs opposed U.S. rulers’ claim invasion of Vietnam was to “defend democracy.”

Blacks in America’s Wars by Robert W. Mullen is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. It recounts the hidden history about Blacks participation in U.S. wars, from the First American Revolution to the Civil War to the…


Iran protests: ‘Our enemy is here!’ ‘Stop warmongering’

Vol. 89/No. 35 - October 6, 2025
Iran protests: ‘Our enemy is here!’ ‘Stop warmongering’

“Our enemy is right here, they lie when they say it’s in America,” “Enough warmongering, our tables are empty,” and “No to inflation and high prices, no to war and destruction” were some of the slogans retirees chanted in Kermanshah…


Ukraine rail unionists describe fight against Moscow’s war

Vol. 89/No. 34 - September 29, 2025
From left, Volodymyr Kozelskyi, president of the Free Trade Union of Railway Workers of Ukraine, with Militant editor John Studer, Oksana Demyanovych and reporter Frank Forrestal in Kyiv June 2015. Kozelskyi arranged for Militant to meet with rail workers in eastern Ukraine.

Moscow’s murderous war on the Ukrainian people has deliberately targeted working people in urban and rural areas, killing thousands. Members of Ukraine’s trade unions make up a significant part of the volunteer military forces on the front lines. At the…


What’s the truth about famine in Gaza? Who’s responsible?

Vol. 89/No. 34 - September 29, 2025

The bourgeois liberal press, like the New York Times, claims there is a widespread famine in Gaza caused by Israel as part of its “genocide” against the Palestinian people, and that Israel is prolonging the war to keep Prime Minister…