‘SWP’s aim is working-class road to taking political power’

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025
Paul Mailhot, left, SWP candidate for mayor of New York, discusses politics with postal worker Hector Narvaez at National Association of Letter Carriers rally in Harlem Feb. 16.

‘More workers taking SWP seriously than I remember’ OAKLAND, Calif. — “The objective of the Socialist Workers Party is to present the working-class road to taking political power, to change which class rules,” Norton Sandler, the SWP candidate for governor…


Jews led resistance against Nazi murderers in Auschwitz

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025
Statue in Israel commemorates the four women who helped lead resistance to Nazi Holocaust in Auschwitz death camp.

In the second imperialist world war the German Nazi government of Adolf Hitler attempted to carry through the “Final Solution,” the slaughter of the world’s Jews. With the help of the democratic imperialist leaders in Washington, London and others, who…


Haitian workers protest gang violence, gov’t disdain

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025

Thousands of working people in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, took to the streets April 2 protesting against the Haitian government’s refusal to protect them from the violence of brutal armed gangs, which have taken control over 85% of the capital city. They…


1,000 in Sackets Harbor protest against ICE raid

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025

Nearly 1,000 people from Sackets Harbor, a small town of 1,300 in northwest New York state, and the surrounding area marched and protested April 5 against the arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents of a family, a mother and…


Pathfinder books get hearing at Paris African Book Fair

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025

PARIS — During the fourth annual African Book Fair here March 14-16, one Burkinabe participant posted a short TikTok video about the French language edition of Thomas Sankara Speaks, a book that contains all of Sankara’s speeches while he was…



London students protest Jew-hatred

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025

LONDON — “We will win!” some 200 supporters of an Israeli victory in its war against Hamas chanted at a spirited rally here April 2. The chant was led by the speaker, Yoseph Haddad, an Israeli Arab, who joined the…




25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025

April 17, 2000 NEW YORK — The first of a series of public forums organized by the AFL-CIO on immigrant rights took place here April 1. A feature of the event was reports by immigrant workers involved in battles for…