Oregon nurses approve contracts, end 6-week strike

Vol. 89/No. 9 - March 10, 2025

PORTLAND, Ore. — After a six-week strike, 5,000 nurses at eight Providence hospitals across the state approved new contracts Feb. 24, ending what the Oregon Nurses Association described as the largest health care workers strike in state history. Calling the…


Jews in Brooklyn outmobilize pro-Hamas thugs

Vol. 89/No. 9 - March 10, 2025

About 200 supporters of Hamas and fellow Jew-hating allies provocatively targeted an event in the heavily Jewish Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, Feb. 18, but got an unexpected surprise. They were outnumbered by opponents of Jew-hatred. The anti-Jewish…


SWP: ‘US military out of Korea!’

Vol. 89/No. 9 - March 10, 2025

On Feb. 14, the Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialists sent revolutionary greetings to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on the occasion of the country’s Feb. 16 national holiday. “Washington’s recent docking at the Port of Busan on the…


‘The party must be proletarian in program and composition’

Vol. 89/No. 9 - March 10, 2025
Unionists at Bethlehem Steel shipbuilding yard in May 1941 during joint strike in San Francisco of 1,200 AFL and 900 CIO machinists against wage cuts. The Socialist Workers Party fought for labor movement to champion opposition to the U.S. rulers’ drive to war.

In Defense of Marxism by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Trotsky, a central leader of the Russian Revolution and the Communist International under V.I. Lenin, fought in the 1930s to maintain Lenin’s proletarian…


Destroy Hamas, Tehran’s nuclear weapons

Vol. 89/No. 9 - March 10, 2025

As more facts come out on Hamas’ gruesome torture of the hostages it kidnapped in its Oct. 7, 2023, pogrom and the murder by strangulation of the two Bibas children, more working people in Israel and around the world can…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 9 - March 10, 2025

March 6, 2000 This past week the government arrested Mariano Faget, an official of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Miami, and charged him with espionage on behalf of the Cuban government. They then demanded Cuban diplomat José Imperatori at…


‘Workers need our own party, a party of labor’

Vol. 89/No. 9 - March 10, 2025
New York protest Feb. 24 backing fight to defend Ukrainian sovereignty after third year of Moscow’s invasion. Inset, Paul Mailhot, left, SWP candidate for mayor of New York, at the rally.

NEW YORK — At a spirited meeting here Feb. 23, the Socialist Workers Party launched its campaign for mayor, announcing Paul Mailhot as its candidate. Mailhot is the organizer of the SWP’s New York City branch. The launching capped a…


Protests: ‘End Moscow’s war, back Ukraine sovereignty!’

Vol. 89/No. 9 - March 10, 2025
Thousands rallied in Washington, D.C., above, Feb. 22, and in over 700 cities in U.S. and around the world in support of Ukraine’s sovereignty three years after Moscow’s invasion.

WASHINGTON — Some 3,000 defenders of Ukraine’s sovereignty rallied here two days before the third anniversary of Moscow’s Feb. 24, 2022, bloody invasion and attempt to conquer Ukraine. Similar events were held around the world, including in Russia. Participants came…


Hamas savagery shows need to defend Israel as refuge for Jews

Vol. 89/No. 9 - March 10, 2025
Hamas parades coffins of dead Israeli hostages Oded Lifshitz, Shiri Bibas and her two children, Kfir and Ariel, Feb. 20 in Khan Younis, Gaza, before returning bodies to Israel. Caskets say “Date of arrest” Oct. 7. Banner on stage threatens “Al-Aqsa flood was our promise” to launch more pogroms killing Jews.

Hamas’ use of cruelly choreographed hostage release ceremonies — where hostages who have been tortured and starved for over a year are forced to thank their captors for their “good treatment” — show the Jew-hating, anti-working-class character of the Nazi-like…


Teamster drivers go out on strike against 10 Roads Express bosses

Vol. 89/No. 9 - March 10, 2025
Teamsters Local 727 members picket 10 Roads Express in Park Ridge, Illinois, Feb. 23. More than 500 truck drivers in eight states are on strike against company’s demand for wage cuts.

WARRENDALE, Pa. — More than 500 Teamster truck drivers in eight states went on strike against 10 Roads Express Feb. 18 in a fight against boss demands for wage cuts. The freight trucking company, which employs some 2,600 drivers, is…