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Support Israel’s right to exist, defend itself as a refuge from Jew-hatred and pogroms!
Working people need to reject Biden’s demand that Israel not respond
Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024![Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate, in Los Angeles. “The SWP calls on working people to condemn pressure by the U.S. government of Joseph Biden to dictate to Israel what it must or must not do to defend itself as a refuge for the Jews,” she said April 15.](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rachele-Fruit-Los-Angeles-8817-300x214.jpg)
Statement released April 15 by Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president of the United States. SWP presidential candidate Rachele Fruit is working-class alternative to capitalism’s march to depression and war The Socialist Workers Party calls on working people…
25, 50, and 75 Years Ago
Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024May 3, 1999 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — David Sanes, a resident of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, was killed April 19 when two U.S. Navy warplanes on a training mission for the U.S. bombing campaign against Yugoslavia dropped…
Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, fund March 9-May 7 (week five)
Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024The fight against Jew-hatred and pogroms in the imperialist epoch
Stakes for the international working class
Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024![Pogroms, yesterday and today. Top, Hamas parades Jewish man murdered by death squad Oct. 7 past cheering supporters in Gaza City. Massacre in southern Israel was deadliest single attack on Jews since Hitler’s “Final Solution.” Bottom, using what Bolshevik leader V.I. Lenin called “the most savage and furious methods,” tsarist-inspired pogromists in 1906 murdered 80 Jews in Belostok, in what is now Poland. Photo shows Jewish family after assault.](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Oct-7-and-Belostok-8817-242x300.jpg)
Below is the opening chapter by Socialist Workers Party leader Dave Prince of the new book, The Fight Against Jew-Hatred and Pogroms in the Imperialist Epoch: Stakes for the International Working Class. Other chapters feature writings by revolutionary Marxist leaders…
SWP campaigners fan out to put Rachele Fruit on New Jersey ballot
Working-class alternative to Biden-Trump-Kennedy
Vol. 88/No. 16
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April 22, 2024
![Above, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president Rachele Fruit walks picket line with members of UNITE HERE union at hotel in Los Angeles April 5. Below, vice presidential candidate Dennis Richter talks with firefighters locked out by Boeing in Seattle, May 13. Fruit and other SWP candidates explain stakes for workers and unions in defending constitutional liberties.](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rachele-Fruit-picket-8816-300x215.jpg)
New Jersey, New York SWP candidates explain program BY ROY LANDERSEN UNION CITY, N.J. — “Every four years the Socialist Workers Party has a special opportunity to contest with the capitalist rulers’ candidates to become president of the United States,…
How Marxists in the US helped lead in overthrow of slavery
Vol. 88/No. 16 - April 22, 2024![Joseph Weydemeyer, inset, close collaborator of Karl Marx, served as officer in Union Army, like those, above, during Civil War. Marx hailed President Abraham Lincoln for his reelection in 1864, saying that politically it was “the triumphal war-cry” of “Death to Slavery.”](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weydemeyer-canvas-8816-300x218.jpg)
Revolutionary Continuity: The Early Years 1848-1917 by Farrell Dobbs is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. This is the first of two volumes covering class struggles and political battles behind the development of a Marxist leadership in…
25, 50, and 75 Years Ago
Vol. 88/No. 16 - April 22, 2024April 26, 1999 The big-business media and U.S. officials would have us believe that workers and farmers in the Balkans have been reduced to weeping Albanian refugees from Kosova, “uncivilized” Serbs seeking “ethnic cleansing,” and corpses. Even to those repelled…
Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, fund March 9-May 7 (week 4)
Vol. 88/No. 16 - April 22, 2024Student newspaper ‘Corsair’ interviews Rachele Fruit
Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024![Corsair reporter Bunker King asked Fruit why the SWP has so many books. “The books contain our history, the history of the working class, that we need to learn from,” she explained.](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rachele-Fruit-Corsair-8815-300x180.jpg)
Bunker King goes to Santa Monica College and is an editor at the Corsair, the student newspaper. He attended the March 30 talk by Rachele Fruit, SWP candidate for president, and interviewed her afterwards. These were some of the exchanges,…