Gaza protests show world that Hamas is enemy of Palestinians

Vol. 89/No. 19 - May 19, 2025
Three of those recently murdered by Hamas in wake of spreading protests. Top, clockwise: Munther Yaseen and Tamer Kafarneh, reported to have been executed for trying to stop thugs from looting aid warehouse; Ziad Shalouf, a well-known figure in Khan Younis.

The growing, courageous opposition to Hamas in Gaza is puncturing the myth pushed by its apologists around the world that Hamas and its allies are fighting for Palestinian rights. For 18 years, Hamas beat, tortured and killed its opponents in…


SWP is the party working people are looking to join

Vol. 89/No. 19 - May 19, 2025
Teamsters Local 728 members are on strike against 10 Roads Express in Palmetto, Georgia, above, and in 10 other states. Three of the strikers there have subscribed to the Militant.

As Socialist Workers Party candidates are getting a real hearing, members of the party and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom are heading toward the successful completion of the eight-week spring campaign to win 1,300 new Militant…


US, Beijing tariff struggle raises threat of future wars

Vol. 89/No. 19 - May 19, 2025

Washington’s stiff tariffs levied against Chinese trade are a key part of the U.S. capitalist rulers’ efforts to contain Beijing’s challenge to their weakening domination of a disintegrating world imperialist “order.” Working people in the U.S. have no reason to…


May Day rallies defend the rights of immigrants, strengthen unions

Vol. 89/No. 19 - May 19, 2025
Jennifer Vasquez Sura speaks at May 1 march in Washington, D.C., organized by immigrant rights group CASA. She is wife of unionist Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was denied due process, deported to El Salvador. His union, SMART, AFL-CIO, others are calling for his release, return.

Defense of the rights of immigrant workers, including calls for amnesty for all workers without papers in the U.S. and against deportations, was an important feature of May Day actions mounted by unions and others around the country. Many demanded…




US-led 1991 Iraq slaughter: ‘Opening guns of World War III’

Vol. 89/No. 19 - May 19, 2025
Washington’s 1991 war on Iraq, Jack Barnes said, announced “loud and clear, the conflicts that lie ahead as the imperialist rulers follow the historic logic of their declining world system.”

This week the Militant is featuring  “The Opening Guns of World War III: Washington’s Assault on Iraq” by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. It’s the lead article in New International no. 7. Along with issues no.…


Communist League in Canada: Break with the bosses’ parties

Vol. 89/No. 19 - May 19, 2025
Philippe Tessier, center right, rail worker and Communist League candidate, speaks with locked-out cement workers in Montreal May 1. “We need to defend our class interests,” he said.

MONTREAL — “When the April 28 federal election was called in March by Mark Carney, who became Canada’s new Liberal prime minister when Justin Trudeau resigned, two counterposed roads faced the unions,” Philippe Tessier, the Communist League candidate for Parliament…



UK court: ‘women’ are a biological fact, not a gender

Vol. 89/No. 19 - May 19, 2025

LONDON — In an issue with big stakes for the working class, the Supreme Court of the U.K. here ruled April 16 that the words “sex,” “woman” and “man” refer to biological facts. The group For Women Scotland challenged the…