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…


Unlike Martin Luther King, Malcolm X was a revolutionary

Vol. 89/No. 4 - February 3, 2025
Library of Congress/Marion S. Trikosko Martin Luther King, left, and Malcolm X met only once, at U.S. Capitol during Senate debate on Civil Rights Act, March 26, 1964. The two followed “irreconcilable” class courses, Barnes says.

The anniversaries of the assassination of Malcolm X on Feb. 21, 1965, and of Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968, will soon be commemorated. This week’s Books of the Month selection is from the Spanish edition of Malcolm X,…


Evidence grows government to blame in LA fire catastrophe

Vol. 89/No. 4 - February 3, 2025
Volunteers sift donations at YMCA center in Los Angeles’ Koreatown Jan. 11. Thousands of volunteers, some fire victims themselves, have organized all across city and beyond to collect, distribute clothes, blankets, goods of all kinds. Free pizza and hamburgers are delivered.

LOS ANGELES — The heavy smell of smoke, darkened skies in the daytime and spreading ash have receded in many neighborhoods here, though the closer you are to the ongoing fires it is still dangerous to breathe the air. More…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 89/No. 4 - February 3, 2025

January 31, 2000 COLUMBIA, S.C. — Tens of thousands marched through the streets here demanding the Confederate battle flag no longer be flown over the capitol building. The marchers wound through the streets chanting, “We’re fired up! Take it Down!”…


South African gov’t condemns immigrant gold miners to die

Vol. 89/No. 4 - February 3, 2025

Over a harrowing three days, Jan. 13-15, 246 starving miners and the bodies of 78 dead miners were brought to the surface from the 4,200-foot-deep abandoned Buffelsfontein gold mine near Stilfontein, South Africa, a small town 100 miles southwest of…


Ceasefire is new stage in fight to defend Israel as refuge for Jews

Vol. 89/No. 4 - February 3, 2025

The ceasefire agreement in Gaza today is the product of the blows the Israeli military and people have dealt Hamas, Hezbollah and the reactionary bourgeois regime in Tehran over the last 15 months. Advances in defending Israel as a refuge…


Socialist Workers Party candidates advance working-class road forward

Vol. 89/No. 4 - February 3, 2025
Joanne Kuniansky, left, and Craig Honts, right, SWP candidates for governor and lieutenant governor of New Jersey, speak to Supreme Stegall, a furrier, in Passaic Jan. 19. He got two Militants and asked them to visit again for more discussion on party’s working-class program.

“The Socialist Workers Party campaign speaks in the interests of working people, as we face unemployment, high prices, a deep social crisis and the threat of more wars,” Eric Simpson, the party’s candidate for mayor of Oakland, California, told supporters…



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…