Pathfinder books get hearing at Paris African Book Fair

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025

PARIS — During the fourth annual African Book Fair here March 14-16, one Burkinabe participant posted a short TikTok video about the French language edition of Thomas Sankara Speaks, a book that contains all of Sankara’s speeches while he was…


London students protest Jew-hatred

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025

LONDON — “We will win!” some 200 supporters of an Israeli victory in its war against Hamas chanted at a spirited rally here April 2. The chant was led by the speaker, Yoseph Haddad, an Israeli Arab, who joined the…



Striking Teamsters rally at San Francisco airport

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025
Striking Teamsters rally at San Francisco airport

SAN FRANCISCO — In their second week on strike, drivers for Flying Food Group, a catering company at the San Francisco International Airport, rallied at the airport April 7. “We’re united, we’re solid,” Norber Naguit, a driver with nine years…


Omari Musa: 57 years building the Socialist Workers Party

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025
Omari Musa, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress in Florida, explains SWP program in 2008. He joined the party in 1969 and stood as an SWP candidate 19 times.

WASHINGTON — A meeting organized by the branch of the Socialist Workers Party here was held March 22 to celebrate the life of Omari Musa, a veteran cadre of some 57 years building the communist movement in the U.S. and…


SWP fights for NJ ballot: 650 signatures in 4 days!

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025
“Workers appreciate Militant’s  defense of immigrants,” Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for governor of New Jersey, told forum April 5. Campaigners got 23 subscriptions over four days.

UNION CITY, N.J. — In the opening four days of the fight to get the Socialist Workers Party on the ballot in New Jersey, 650 signatures were gathered, as well as 23 subscriptions to the Militant and 24 books by…


8,000 day care workers strike, march on gov’t in Quebec City

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025

QUEBEC CITY — Eight thousand striking day care workers from all corners of Quebec marched on the provincial legislature here April 3. Some 13,000 education workers and support staff overall, members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN), from…


Protests against Hamas open a door to a shift in Middle East

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025
“Hamas is a terrorist organization!” chanted hundreds of protesters in Jabaliya in northern Gaza April 6. Courage of protesters shows openings for advances by toilers in the Middle East.

Israel’s new offensive in Gaza is aimed at decisively defeating Hamas to prevent it from organizing more murderous pogroms against Jews. Combined with the ongoing protests against Hamas by Palestinians in Gaza, this marks a turning point in the fight…


Unions take up the fight to defend the rights of immigrant workers

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, wrongly deported by Trump administration to El Salvador, speaks at news conference in Maryland, April 4. SMART, Abrego’s union, is setting example for labor movement by pledging to organize, rally, fight until he is home.

LANGLEY PARK, Md. — The fight by his family, his union and others to force the U.S. government to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old Maryland union apprentice sheet metal worker deported to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT megaprison, is…


Deepening capitalist trade conflicts shake up imperialist world ‘order’

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025

President Donald Trump’s tariffs, levied against capitalist competitors abroad, will “level the playing field for American industries and workers,” proclaimed White House spokesperson Kush Desai April 1. In the face of dog-eat-dog competition for natural resources and markets, the administration…