Daily Georgia protests: ‘Down with pro-Moscow gov’t’

Vol. 89/No. 2 - January 20, 2025

There is overwhelming support inside Georgia for the weeks of large protests there demanding a new election — and for the unwavering determination by demonstrators not to back down. Under this pressure, the government has pulled back from its earlier…


‘Battle of Boston’ 50 years ago helped change US class struggle

Vol. 89/No. 2 - January 20, 2025
Over 12,000 people marched in Boston Dec. 14, 1974, part of fight to desegregate the schools and end racist attacks on Black students. Actions dealt a blow to anti-working-class forces.

This school year marks the 50th anniversary of the hard-fought struggle for school desegregation in Boston. “Thousands of white students boycotted classes and white mobs took to the streets in an attempt to thwart court-ordered school desegregation. Black students arriving…


Jew-hatred, ‘racial purity’ at heart of Hamas program

Vol. 89/No. 2 - January 20, 2025

The Jew-hatred at the heart of Hamas’ drive to destroy Israel is no secret. Its 1988 founding covenant says, “Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious.” Hamas, which operates primarily in Gaza and the West Bank,…



Imperialism’s march to fascism and war

Vol. 89/No. 2 - January 20, 2025

Millions of working people are being drawn into world politics today amid the deepening crisis shaking the imperialist system. It has led to trade and military conflicts between rival ruling classes and their governments; Moscow’s drive to subjugate the Ukrainian…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 89/No. 2 - January 20, 2025

January 17, 2000 Leading up to the new millennium, Washington issued a number of “worldwide terrorism warnings” as it beefed up the cops at its border. In the name of combating “Islamic terrorism,” the U.S. rulers show utter contempt for…


Correction

Vol. 89/No. 2 - January 20, 2025

In Militant issue no. 1, the article, “Culture flourishes in Ukraine while artists, actors are jailed in Russia,” should have said that “Three Comrades,” a play by Yevhen Nyshchuk, was adapted from Erich Maria Remarque’s post-World War I novel of…


Overthrow of Assad’s tyranny opens space for working people

Vol. 89/No. 1 - January 13, 2025
Huge crowd at New Year’s Eve celebration in Damascus, Syria, as millions across country marked fall of Assad family’s oppressive 50-year rule. Working people have high expectations as thousands were freed from Assad’s prisons and space has opened to fight for their interests.

The overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad dictatorship in Syria has left in tatters much of the “axis of resistance” organized by Iran’s capitalist rulers to expand their power across the Middle East and to wipe out Israel. This is a…


Milk-Bone strike, labor solidarity win new contract, strengthen union

Vol. 89/No. 1 - January 13, 2025

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The 165 members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 36G at J.M. Smucker’s Milk-Bone factory here are scheduled to return to work Jan. 2 after seven weeks on strike. Workers voted in their majority…


SWP, ‘Militant’ campaign to discuss shifts in world politics

Vol. 89/No. 1 - January 13, 2025
“I don’t like Democrats or Republicans,” truck driver Victor Torres, right, told SWP members Gerardo Sánchez and Alyson Kennedy in Euless, Texas, Dec. 29. “They blame immigrants for problems.” He got a Militant subscription and The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us.

Recent political developments shaking world politics have stirred discussions among workers about a road forward, from the advances made by Israel in dealing blows to Hamas, Hezbollah and the rulers in Tehran; the fall of the Bashar al-Assad tyranny in…