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…


Iran aluminum workers settle protest, steelworkers start one

Vol. 89/No. 34 - September 29, 2025
Iran aluminum workers settle protest, steelworkers start one

Some 4,000 workers at the Arak Aluminum Company in Iran’s Markazi province have ended 43 days of hunger strikes, sit-ins and other protests demanding better wages and work conditions. The hard-fought battle was closely watched by workers across Iran.  The…


Revolution by Cuba’s working people opened up a new world

Vol. 89/No. 34 - September 29, 2025
Víctor Dreke, left, second in command under Che Guevara, right, in Congo in 1965, to support anti-imperialist forces. Cuban doctor Rafael Zerquera, center. In the course of Cuba’s revolution, Fidel Castro said, “we learned Marxism from books, but above all from life.”

From the Escambray to the Congo: In the Whirlwind of the Cuban Revolution by Víctor Dreke is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. Since the 1950s Dreke has been a leading participant in Cuba’s revolutionary movement —…


We will have a chance to end exploitation, war

Vol. 89/No. 34 - September 29, 2025

Deepening rivalries between Washington and other imperialist powers, as well as with Moscow and Beijing are a product of the deepening crisis of capitalism and point to the inevitability of more wars. With each new conflict, the fact that imperialism…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 34 - September 29, 2025

September 25, 2000 Working people should reject the assault on democratic rights in Britain under the guise of protecting children. The scapegoating of those who have previously served sentences for sex offenses is an attempt to erode the social solidarity…


Back Israel’s battle to defeat Hamas, end its grip on Gaza

Vol. 89/No. 34 - September 29, 2025
Tens of thousands of Palestinians leave Gaza City on urging of Israeli forces, opening up space for IDF troops to move in against Hamas, while minimizing civilian casualties.

Israel is moving to wrest control from Hamas of its key remaining stronghold in Gaza. This is despite increased pressure from Washington and other imperialist ruling classes, reactionary regimes across the Middle East and middle-class radicals around the world who…


Years of liberals demonizing Trump led to the killing of Charlie Kirk

Vol. 89/No. 34 - September 29, 2025

Charlie Kirk, a conservative politician who organized to win young people to support Donald Trump, was shot and killed as he spoke in front of 3,000 people at Utah Valley University Sept. 10. He was known for engaging political opponents…


Join fall drive to expand the reach of the ‘Militant’ and the SWP

Vol. 89/No. 34 - September 29, 2025

The Socialist Workers Party is launching its fall party propaganda campaign. We’re asking you, our Militant readers, to join in helping expand the reach of the paper and introduce the SWP to more working people. The eight-week effort begins Sept.…


Teamsters strike against Republic Services in Boston in 10th week

Vol. 89/No. 34 - September 29, 2025
Teamsters on strike against Republic Services filled the stage at Labor Day in Boston Sept. 1. “As long as it takes, we are going to be out there,” striker Kenny Sullivan told the crowd.

PEABODY, Mass. — “Republic doesn’t care about the customers or the workers,” striker Afri Ituen told the Militant as he was finishing his shift on the Teamsters picket line here Sept. 13. When he’s working, Ituen’s job is to toss…


Putin’s war on Ukraine hits Poland, as NATO, Moscow hold war games

Vol. 89/No. 34 - September 29, 2025

In a deliberate violation of Poland’s airspace, Moscow deployed 19 drones across that country’s border Sept. 9, during a broader assault on working people in Ukraine. Warplanes from the Netherlands and Poland, both members of the Washington-led NATO military alliance,…