Join fight against ban on ‘Militant’ in Phoenix jail!

Vol. 89/No. 4 - February 3, 2025

The Militant is appealing the banning of its Nov. 11, 2024, issue of the paper by authorities at the Lower Buckeye Jail in Phoenix. The paper is urging supporters of civil liberties and prisoners’ rights to join this fight and…


White House is the home of capitalist rule

Vol. 89/No. 4 - February 3, 2025

The inauguration of President Donald Trump marks a change from one of the two major parties that serve the U.S. capitalist class to the other. It does nothing to change the class-against-class reality workers face every day. Trump won support…


Communist League campaigns amid political crisis in Canada

Vol. 89/No. 4 - February 3, 2025
Philippe Tessier, one of the Communist League’s two candidates for Parliament from Montreal, speaks in defense of Ukraine’s sovereignty in Toronto March 2022, weeks after Russia’s invasion.

MONTREAL — “At the very moment [Canada] needs stable and credible leadership” — as a trade conflict with Washington is imminent — “it is instead wracked by the prolonged death throes of a minority government,” complained the editors of the…


Capitalist rule turned LA fires into a social catastrophe

Vol. 89/No. 4 - February 3, 2025

Statement by Laura Garza, organizer of the Los Angeles Socialist Workers Party, Jan. 20. The dog-eat-dog capitalist system is incapable of addressing the crisis now facing working people, small-business owners and thousands of others in the aftermath of the deadly…


True Jimmy Carter: Defender of US capitalist rule, wars

Vol. 89/No. 4 - February 3, 2025

The bourgeois press, particularly the liberal-run media, has gone to great lengths to portray recently deceased Democratic Party politician and former President James Earl Carter Jr. as a “humanitarian” and “peacemaker.” Carter was the 39th president, the executive officer for…


UK food workers strike at Princes for higher wages

Vol. 89/No. 4 - February 3, 2025
Members of Unite union on strike against Princes food company picket plant in Long Sutton, England, Jan. 14 in strike for pay raise. Fellow unionists on strike against Bakkavor for nearly four months joined in solidarity.

LONG SUTTON, England — Some 300 members of Unite, the union at the Princes food company here, walked out Jan. 7. Princes produces canned fish, meat, vegetables, soft drinks and pickles. Their action was part of a series of strikes,…


Ukraine coal miners fight gov’t attacks, resist Moscow’s war

Vol. 89/No. 4 - February 3, 2025
Members of Independent Trade Union of Mineworkers of Ukraine from Lviv Coal State Enterprise protest at Ministry of Energy in Kyiv Aug. 1 demanding payment of wage arrears.

Ukrainian working people are the heart and soul of the fight to defend their country’s sovereignty against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s murderous invasion. Ukrainian workers also bear the biggest effects of the economic burden of the war on production, transportation…


Exhibit: Bolshevik Revolution unleashed Ukraine culture

Vol. 89/No. 4 - February 3, 2025

LONDON — How the 1905 and 1917 revolutions in Russia affected the development of modern art and culture in Ukraine was the focus of the exhibit “In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s.” On display here last…



Why the Holocaust made the creation of Israel inevitable

Vol. 89/No. 4 - February 3, 2025
Sept. 7, 1947, protest in British-run Bergen-Belsen Jewish displaced persons camp after British navy rammed and boarded the ship Exodus, forcing Jewish passengers trying to reach Palestine back to Europe.

Underground to Palestine by I.F. Stone. Hassell Street Press. 264 pages. $26.06. Reprinted 2021. BY SETH GALINSKY Leading up to and during World War II, Adolf Hitler’s Nazis murdered 6 million Jews. That was two out of every three Jews…