Shin Bet treason opened door to Hamas pogrom

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025

After Hamas carried out its deadly pogrom Oct. 7, 2023, acrimonious divisions that have wracked Israeli politics for years heated up. It has now turned into a political civil war. The liberal capitalist media in Israel and the U.S. present…



SWP in 1938: ‘Revolutionary party has to combat Jew-hatred’

Vol. 89/No. 20 - May 26, 2025
Members of Socialist Workers Party helped initiate picket at German Consulate in New York in November 1938 demanding Washington open its doors to Jewish and other victims of Nazi terror. Party resolution said road to end Jew-hatred was fight for workers power, socialism.

The Founding of the Socialist Workers Party: Minutes and Resolutions, 1938-39 is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. The communist movement in the U.S. was founded in 1919 to emulate V.I. Lenin and the Bolsheviks, who led…


SWP is the party working people are looking to join

Vol. 89/No. 19 - May 19, 2025
Teamsters Local 728 members are on strike against 10 Roads Express in Palmetto, Georgia, above, and in 10 other states. Three of the strikers there have subscribed to the Militant.

As Socialist Workers Party candidates are getting a real hearing, members of the party and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom are heading toward the successful completion of the eight-week spring campaign to win 1,300 new Militant…


US, Beijing tariff struggle raises threat of future wars

Vol. 89/No. 19 - May 19, 2025

Washington’s stiff tariffs levied against Chinese trade are a key part of the U.S. capitalist rulers’ efforts to contain Beijing’s challenge to their weakening domination of a disintegrating world imperialist “order.” Working people in the U.S. have no reason to…


May Day rallies defend the rights of immigrants, strengthen unions

Vol. 89/No. 19 - May 19, 2025
Jennifer Vasquez Sura speaks at May 1 march in Washington, D.C., organized by immigrant rights group CASA. She is wife of unionist Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was denied due process, deported to El Salvador. His union, SMART, AFL-CIO, others are calling for his release, return.

Defense of the rights of immigrant workers, including calls for amnesty for all workers without papers in the U.S. and against deportations, was an important feature of May Day actions mounted by unions and others around the country. Many demanded…




US-led 1991 Iraq slaughter: ‘Opening guns of World War III’

Vol. 89/No. 19 - May 19, 2025
Washington’s 1991 war on Iraq, Jack Barnes said, announced “loud and clear, the conflicts that lie ahead as the imperialist rulers follow the historic logic of their declining world system.”

This week the Militant is featuring  “The Opening Guns of World War III: Washington’s Assault on Iraq” by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. It’s the lead article in New International no. 7. Along with issues no.…


Communist League in Canada: Break with the bosses’ parties

Vol. 89/No. 19 - May 19, 2025
Philippe Tessier, center right, rail worker and Communist League candidate, speaks with locked-out cement workers in Montreal May 1. “We need to defend our class interests,” he said.

MONTREAL — “When the April 28 federal election was called in March by Mark Carney, who became Canada’s new Liberal prime minister when Justin Trudeau resigned, two counterposed roads faced the unions,” Philippe Tessier, the Communist League candidate for Parliament…