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…


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…


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…


Defend Israel’s existence as refuge against Jew-hatred

Hamas reimposes rule in Gaza, refuses to disarm
Vol. 89/No. 46 - December 22, 2025
Armed thugs patrol Gaza as Hamas reimposes tyrannical rule on Palestinians. Only force capable, willing to disarm its death squads to prevent more pogroms is Israel Defense Forces.

Hamas leaders make it clear they have no intention of disarming, nor of giving up their brutal stranglehold on Gaza or abandoning their goal of destroying Israel and eliminating the Jews. As the weeks go by with no moves to…


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…


Deadly flooding in Southeast Asia reveals social catastrophe

Vol. 89/No. 46 - December 22, 2025
Flood survivors cross swollen river on logs in North Sumatra, Indonesia, Dec. 2. Unbridled capitalist expansion turned storms, flooding in Southeast Asia into a deadly social disaster.

SYDNEY — Monsoon rains and tropical storms caused massive floods and landslides, which devastated much of Southeast Asia since late November, leaving some 2,000 dead and over 1 million displaced. Buildings and farmland, including whole towns, have been destroyed, and…


Washington expands bases, weaponry in Puerto Rico

Vol. 89/No. 46 - December 22, 2025
Demonstration against U.S. Marines training at Camp Santiago in Salinas, Puerto Rico, organized by Mothers Against War Nov. 29. In center is Sonia Santiago, a leader of the group.

As part of its broader military buildup across Latin America and the Caribbean, Washington has rapidly expanded U.S. aerial and naval operations in Puerto Rico, provoking widespread concern and indignation among working people there. Many oppose the U.S. rulers once…


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…


‘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…