Thousands join protests against firebomb attack on Jews in Boulder

Vol. 89/No. 22 - June 9, 2025

BOULDER, Colo. — Three days after the murderous attack on Jews marching near the Pearl Mall downtown here June 1, over 1,500 people packed the auditorium and overflow spaces at the Jewish Community Center for an event titled “Coming Together,…



Second, larger march held in Boulder against Jew-hatred

Vol. 89/No. 22 - June 9, 2025

BOULDER, Colo. — Thousands turned out here June 8 to participate in the Run for Their Lives, one week after the life-threatening firebomb attack on a similar, but much smaller, action. Today’s walk took place alongside the annual Boulder Jewish…


Bring Abrego Garcia back home! Stop the deportations!

Vol. 89/No. 22 - June 9, 2025

WASHINGTON — Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old apprentice sheet metal worker and member of the SMART union has been in prison in El Salvador for over 75 days, first in the notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) and now in the…


Abrego Garcia returned to US, thrown in jail

Vol. 89/No. 22 - June 9, 2025

After months of fighting court orders — including from the U.S. Supreme Court — to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States, the Justice Department June 6 returned him from El Salvador where he had been imprisoned after…


Union-led rallies protest gov’t arrests, deportations of immigrant workers

Unions demand return of deported SMART member
Vol. 89/No. 21 - June 2, 2025

WASHINGTON — “Labor Demands Justice for Kilmar” is the headline on a flyer for a May 22 rally — postponed at the last minute by forecasted heavy wind and rain, to be rescheduled shortly. It demands the U.S. government bring…


SWP continuity on Ukraine’s fight for self-determination

Vol. 89/No. 21 - June 2, 2025

As candidates and members of the Socialist Workers Party campaign across the country, they get out the truth about Moscow’s murderous war against the people of Ukraine and rally workers to join in defending Ukraine’s sovereignty. They take the weekly…


Bakers protest in Iran: ‘The gov’t broke its promises!’

Vol. 89/No. 21 - June 2, 2025
“We are bakers, not slaves,” bakery owners and workers said at protests across Iran May 17-18.

Bakery owners and workers in at least nine cities in Iran protested May 17 and 18 over rising costs, delays in government payments of subsidies aimed at keeping bread prices low, and frequent power outages that ruin production. Bread is…


V.I. Lenin: Imperialism is epoch of crises, wars and revolutions

Vol. 89/No. 21 - June 2, 2025
Sailors on cruiser “Aurora” come over, join workers, peasants insurrection led by Bolsheviks in Petrograd, Russia, 1917. V.I. Lenin said Russian Revolution opened door to world revolution.

This feature is an excerpt from “Capitalism’s Long Hot Winter Has Begun,” by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. It’s the title article in New International no. 12. Issues no. 7, 10, 11 and 12 of the…


Dominican sugar workers back US farmworkers’ fight

Vol. 89/No. 21 - June 2, 2025
Members of Sugarcane Workers Union in San Pedro de Macorís province, Dominican Republic, send solidarity May 12 to fight to prevent deportation of farmworkers’ union leader Alfredo “Lelo” Juárez. He is currently held in jail by U.S. immigration police in Washington state.

The fight by labor unions and defenders of the rights of immigrants to win the release of Alfredo Juárez Zeferino, a farmworker union militant detained by the immigration police March 25, continues to win support. “The Sugarcane Workers Union (UTC)…