Putin steps up assault on Ukraine as US gov’t presses Kyiv to give in

Vol. 89/No. 46 - December 22, 2025
Ukrainian students enter an underground school on first day of fall term in Kharkiv Sept. 1. Despite constant bombing by Moscow, Ukrainian working people find ways to carry life on.

Since 2022 determined Ukrainian working people have resisted Moscow’s invasion and drive to seize all of their country. Today the conflict has become a bloody war of attrition. With complete disregard for the lives and limbs of Russian soldiers, President…


Protest Washington’s latest threats of war against Maduro and Venezuela

Vol. 89/No. 46 - December 22, 2025
U.S. Marines practice landings in Arroyo, Puerto Rico, Oct. 16. Trump administration threatens invasion to pressure Venezuelan government, assert its domination of Latin America.

Washington continues its escalating threats against the government of Nicolás Maduro, saying U.S. forces may begin targeted airstrikes inside Venezuela, similar to the ones the U.S. Department of War has been carrying out against boats it alleges are carrying drugs…


Protests oppose gov’t threats against Somalis in Minnesota

Vol. 89/No. 46 - December 22, 2025
March at Minneapolis-St. Paul airport Dec. 3 protests government threats to Somali immigrants.

MINNEAPOLIS — Some 200 people protested in front of Signature Aviation at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport Dec. 3. The federal government is utilizing Signature to transport immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents here to detention centers in…


Labour gov’t in UK weakens crucial right to trial by jury

Vol. 89/No. 46 - December 22, 2025

LONDON — The Labour government in the U.K. is looking to restrict the fundamental right of an accused person to be tried by a jury of their peers. This right is deeply in the interests of all working people. The…


SWP finds good response to the ‘Militant,’ books by party leaders

Vol. 89/No. 46 - December 22, 2025
SWP campaigner Beverly Bernardo with Tyrone Morgan, Militant subscriber, retired member of AFSCME Local 372, in New York Dec. 7. “I love everything about the paper, it tells the truth about what’s really happening in the world,” he said. Morgan bought a book, gave $3 donation.

Socialist Workers Party members are getting a good response from workers and young people searching for a way out of today’s worsening crisis of capitalism that’s driving rival ruling classes toward a new world war. They’re presenting the party’s perspective…


Forum in Quebec discusses Cuba’s role in Africa’s fight for freedom

Vol. 89/No. 46 - December 22, 2025
Cuban-Angolan tank crew at Cuito Cuanavale, May 31, 1988, after victory over South African apartheid forces there. Inset, airport cleaner Mayuka Abdullai, originally from Ghana, speaking at Nov. 30 Montreal forum on Cuba’s internationalist solidarity with Africa.

MONTREAL — A well-attended Militant Labor Forum here Nov. 30 focused on Cuba’s historic role in the yearslong struggle that brought down the hated apartheid regime in South Africa. The panelists were Mayuka Abdullai, a cleaner at Montreal airport, originally…


Interest in Pathfinder at African Studies conference

Vol. 89/No. 46 - December 22, 2025

ATLANTA — The 68th annual African Studies Association conference, held here Nov. 20-22, drew 1,550 professors, authors, researchers, librarians and others from across the U.S. and nearly every country in Africa. Some came from universities in Australia, Canada, the Caribbean…


Jew-hating moves to bar Israel from Eurovision competition end in failure

Vol. 89/No. 46 - December 22, 2025

After the concerted campaign by several imperialist powers and other countries to get Israel banned from the annual Eurovision Song Contest, part of their broader effort to make the Jewish state into a pariah, national broadcasters from Ireland, Spain, the…


‘Anti-Zionism is Jew-hatred, it is not OK’

Vol. 89/No. 46 - December 22, 2025
‘Anti-Zionism is Jew-hatred, it is not OK’

NEW YORK — Over 1,000 demonstrators turned out to defend the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan and protest against Jew-hatred Dec. 4. The rally was in response to a provocative threat two weeks earlier when a screaming Jew-hating mob of…


4,500 Jews Get Another Lesson in ‘Democracy’

Vol. 89/No. 46 - December 22, 2025

This article appeared in the Aug. 4, 1947, Militant. It describes the plight of Jews seeking to escape displaced persons camps in Europe on the Exodus seeking refuge in Palestine, who were blocked by the British rulers. London, like Washington…