Israeli gov’t approves offensive for defeat of Hamas

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025

After a heated 10-hour debate Aug. 8, the Israeli government approved a new offensive aimed at decisively defeating Hamas and extending Israeli military control over all of Gaza. The Security Cabinet voted to instruct the Israeli army to take over…


Ukraine resists Moscow’s war, Putin seeks help from Trump

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025
Kateryna Troian, a legendary drone operator with over 1,000 successful strikes, was known by her call sign, “Meow.” She was killed by artillery fire near Pokrovsk, in eastern Ukraine, June 8.

In an effort to impose a settlement leading to the end of Moscow’s war in Ukraine, President Donald Trump announced that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin would meet in Alaska Aug. 15. While they talk, working people in Ukraine…


Teamsters Airgas strike enters week seven

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025

VALLEY VIEW, Ohio — Seven weeks into their strike against Airgas, Teamsters members here who fill and haul gas tanks are determined to win contracts with wage increases and improved health care. The Teamsters are on strike in Ohio, New…


Defend Israel’s battle to prevent a new Holocaust!

Defeat of Hamas is a decisive question!
Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025

It’s in the interests of all workers and the oppressed in the U.S. and worldwide to see the fight to dismantle Hamas carried through to the end. Another Holocaust was the stated aim of Hamas when it carried out its…


Letters

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025

More support for the SWP I am writing from Memphis, Tennessee, with a fun anecdote. I was talking with a new friend and learned he and his family are from Grenada. His father has some memorabilia from the revolution, including…


Amnesty, not prison, for immigrant workers in US! Unite the working class

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025
Demonstrators at White House May 1 demand Kilmar Abrego García and other detained immigrant workers be freed. Placard on left says, “We honor and remember the Key Bridge families” of six immigrant workers killed when Baltimore bridge collapsed last year.

When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, he inherited from his predecessor, Democrat Joseph Biden, the largest immigration prison network in U.S. history. Trump immediately began taking steps to further expand it, claiming there were tens of…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025

August 21, 2000 PRETORIA, South Africa — “Let us not equivocate: a tragedy of unprecedented proportions is unfolding in Africa,” Nelson Mandela told delegates at the 13th international AIDS conference in Durban, South Africa. “Decades have been chopped from life…


As capitalist crisis deepens, getting a decent job becomes more difficult

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025

Despite the hype by government officials that the U.S. economy is “booming,” pointing to the billions Washington is reaping from tariffs it’s imposing worldwide, facts show that’s not what working people see and face amid today’s mounting capitalist crisis. It’s…


For Lenin’s internationalism, against Stalin’s counterrevolution!

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025
Socialist Appeal, as Militant was then named, reports Dec. 18, 1937, on Dewey Commission’s exposure of Moscow Trials frame-up of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Issue on March 19, 1938, describes Stalin’s execution of V.I. Lenin’s aides, need to fight imperialist war, fascism.

The Case of Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August. It contains Trotsky’s testimony before the 1937 Dewey Commission investigating frame-up charges made against him in the infamous Moscow Trials. Central leaders of the 1917…


Build support for Boeing strikers!

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025
IAM Local 837 members on strike against Boeing join picket line in St. Louis Aug. 7. In center is Zac Boeger, Clyde Miller at right. They’re fighting for a pay raise for all, end to big wage gap.

ST. LOUIS — After twice rejecting contract proposals from Boeing, 3,200 members of the International Association of Machinists walked off the job here, and in St. Charles, Missouri; and Mascoutah, Illinois, Aug. 4. They are fighting to win a wage…