Protests across Russia oppose Moscow’s war against Ukraine

Vol. 89/No. 10 - March 17, 2025
In Siberian city of Perm, above, a group protests Moscow’s war in Ukraine. Inset, Lyudmila Vasilyeva, 83-year-old survivor of the World War II siege of Leningrad by German army and former candidate against Putin, stages a solo protest in St. Petersburg with placard saying, “Stop the war.”

The third anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine was marked in a careful but significant way in cities across Russia. Despite public opposition to the war being forbidden by law, with many protesters hit with significant sentences and rough…


Wall Street: ‘Life’s good for the rich, that’s good for you’

Vol. 89/No. 10 - March 17, 2025

If your bank accounts run into eight figures, your housing costs are in the millions and you have oodles of investments in bitcoin, stocks, hedge funds and other speculative endeavors, then you’re one of the people the Wall Street Journal…


Israeli gov’t says Hamas must be dismantled, all hostages freed

Vol. 89/No. 10 - March 17, 2025
Armed Hamas thugs “protecting” aid truck in Rafah January 2024. Hamas steals much of the aid sent to Gaza, uses it to reassert its dictatorial rule, finance its plans to carry out new anti-Jewish pogroms. Israel insists Hamas must be destroyed and all hostages released.

With the first phase of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas over, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it clear Israel will not accept any deal that leaves Hamas in power in Gaza or capable of carrying out future…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 9 - March 10, 2025

March 6, 2000 This past week the government arrested Mariano Faget, an official of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Miami, and charged him with espionage on behalf of the Cuban government. They then demanded Cuban diplomat José Imperatori at…


‘Workers need our own party, a party of labor’

Vol. 89/No. 9 - March 10, 2025
New York protest Feb. 24 backing fight to defend Ukrainian sovereignty after third year of Moscow’s invasion. Inset, Paul Mailhot, left, SWP candidate for mayor of New York, at the rally.

NEW YORK — At a spirited meeting here Feb. 23, the Socialist Workers Party launched its campaign for mayor, announcing Paul Mailhot as its candidate. Mailhot is the organizer of the SWP’s New York City branch. The launching capped a…


Protests: ‘End Moscow’s war, back Ukraine sovereignty!’

Vol. 89/No. 9 - March 10, 2025
Thousands rallied in Washington, D.C., above, Feb. 22, and in over 700 cities in U.S. and around the world in support of Ukraine’s sovereignty three years after Moscow’s invasion.

WASHINGTON — Some 3,000 defenders of Ukraine’s sovereignty rallied here two days before the third anniversary of Moscow’s Feb. 24, 2022, bloody invasion and attempt to conquer Ukraine. Similar events were held around the world, including in Russia. Participants came…


Hamas savagery shows need to defend Israel as refuge for Jews

Vol. 89/No. 9 - March 10, 2025
Hamas parades coffins of dead Israeli hostages Oded Lifshitz, Shiri Bibas and her two children, Kfir and Ariel, Feb. 20 in Khan Younis, Gaza, before returning bodies to Israel. Caskets say “Date of arrest” Oct. 7. Banner on stage threatens “Al-Aqsa flood was our promise” to launch more pogroms killing Jews.

Hamas’ use of cruelly choreographed hostage release ceremonies — where hostages who have been tortured and starved for over a year are forced to thank their captors for their “good treatment” — show the Jew-hating, anti-working-class character of the Nazi-like…


Teamster drivers go out on strike against 10 Roads Express bosses

Vol. 89/No. 9 - March 10, 2025
Teamsters Local 727 members picket 10 Roads Express in Park Ridge, Illinois, Feb. 23. More than 500 truck drivers in eight states are on strike against company’s demand for wage cuts.

WARRENDALE, Pa. — More than 500 Teamster truck drivers in eight states went on strike against 10 Roads Express Feb. 18 in a fight against boss demands for wage cuts. The freight trucking company, which employs some 2,600 drivers, is…



Fight prison ban on ‘Militant’ in Florida, Phoenix

Vol. 89/No. 9 - March 10, 2025

Two Militant subscribers who are prisoners at the Santa Rosa Correctional Institution in Milton, Florida, notified the Militant that issue no. 2, dated Jan. 20, 2025, has been impounded there. But a closer read of the impoundment notice shows prison…