SWP builds actions against attacks on Jews, promotes workers power

Vol. 89/No. 47 - December 29, 2025
Deborah Liatos brings solidarity from SWP to Hanukkah celebration of over 200 in Culver City, California, Dec. 14. SWP mobilized across the country to build actions against Jew-hatred.

Members of the Socialist Workers Party and of the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K. are responding to the horrific Jew-hating massacre at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, Dec. 14. Two Islamist thugs shot dead 15 people and…


Kilmar Abrego García is out of prison: ‘My fight will continue’

Vol. 89/No. 47 - December 29, 2025
Kilmar Abrego García, speaking to the press the day after winning release from prison Dec. 11. Backed by his union, SMART, and many others, he is continuing to fight to win his freedom.

WASHINGTON — After 275 days in prison, Kilmar Abrego García, a 30-year-old construction apprentice and member of SMART Local 100, was released from immigration detention Dec. 11. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in Maryland ordered Kristi Noem, the Department of…


Statement by the Communist League in Australia

Vol. 89/No. 47 - December 29, 2025

December 16, 2025 The horrific shooting of Jews celebrating Hanukkah at Bondi Beach December 14, was a violent act of Jew-hatred which should be condemned by all working people, our unions, and supporters of democratic rights. Since the murderous pogrom…


Join battle against Jew-hatred, bloody massacre in Australia

Working class must lead fight on antisemitism, pogroms
Vol. 89/No. 47 - December 29, 2025
Large crowd at Bondi Beach Pavilion in Sydney Dec. 15 pays tribute to victims of pogrom the day 
before. Killings lend urgency to the need to fight Jew-hatred, defend Israel as a refuge for Jews.

SYDNEY — “This was a massacre, a pogrom,” Jewish Board of Deputies President David Ossip told a press conference at Bondi Beach Dec. 15. The previous evening 15 people were shot and killed and dozens more wounded at the beach…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 47 - December 29, 2025

December 25, 2000 Meat packers and other unionists should join with the United Food and Commercial Workers union in protesting the Dec. 5 raid at Nebraska Beef by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, aided by Omaha police and Nebraska State…


Why Israel became inevitable as a refuge for the Jews

Vol. 89/No. 47 - December 29, 2025

Below are excerpts from the first chapter by Dave Prince in The Fight Against Jew-Hatred and Pogroms in the Imperialist Epoch: Stakes for the International Working Class. Copyright © 2024 by Pathfinder Press. Reprinted by permission.  In the years leading…


A class-struggle program for workers today

Vol. 89/No. 47 - December 29, 2025

As the capitalist economic and social crisis deepens, the working class is being hammered by high prices for necessities, including groceries, energy, rent, health care and more, and by increasing difficulties in getting and keeping a decent job. This year…


Mass protests topple Bulgarian gov’t on eve of joining eurozone

Vol. 89/No. 47 - December 29, 2025
Rally against government budget proposals in Sofia, Bulgaria, Dec. 1. Signs read from left, “How many more lies?” “The future is not a business deal” and “Democracy is not a dictatorship.” Economic, social and political crisis led to weeks of large, angry protests.

The challenges confronting Bulgaria’s capitalist rulers increased following a wave of protests against budget proposals. Next month Bulgaria joins the bloc of countries using the euro currency, as its rulers try to attract foreign investment, with competition for markets and…



Israeli hostage tortured by Hamas speaks at NJ temple

Vol. 89/No. 47 - December 29, 2025

WESTFIELD, N.J. — Bar Kupershtein, seized by Hamas and held hostage for 738 days, described his experiences in their hands to 700 people at Temple Emanu-El here Dec. 10. He got a standing ovation. Kupershtein was joined by his friend,…