London conference discusses ‘Contemporary Antisemitism’

Vol. 89/No. 17 - May 5, 2025
“Many workers recognize that Jew-hatred is a world question, a class question,” Jonathan Silberman, right, leader of Communist League in London, told antisemitism conference April 1.

LONDON — A three-day conference on “Contemporary Antisemitism” drew 400 academics and others from 20 countries here March 29-April 1. It was the largest such event since the murderous pogrom by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. The event featured plenary…


‘Fidel and Che led working people to rely on themselves’

Vol. 89/No. 17 - May 5, 2025
Che Guevara, second from left, visits factory as Cuba’s minister of industry in the early 1960s. He talked with workers about setting an example and reinforcing communist consciousness of work as a social responsibility. Along with Fidel Castro, Che was part of leadership cadres forged in struggle who led Cuban working people to take state power and begin to transform themselves as they transformed society.

Below are remarks given by Mary-Alice Waters Feb. 21 during the 2025 Havana International Book Fair at a presentation of Pathfinder’s new edition of Che Guevara on Economics and Politics in the Transition to Socialism by Carlos Tablada. The other…


‘They’re our co-workers,’ Wis. rally for Haitian immigrants says

Vol. 89/No. 17 - May 5, 2025

NEW LONDON, Wis. — Hundreds of Haitian immigrants in this small town in eastern Wisconsin are threatened with deportation following a Department of Homeland Security order March 25. It cancelled the government’s humanitarian parole program for immigrants from Cuba, Haiti,…


Moscow claims Easter ‘truce,’ then bombs Ukraine cities

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Moscow claims Easter ‘truce,’ then bombs Ukraine cities

After more than three years of murderous war on the Ukrainian people, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a 30-hour unilateral ceasefire over the Easter weekend. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that although the air-raid sirens were silent, Moscow’s forces continued…


Israel: Tehran moves to get nuclear weapons threaten a new Holocaust

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said repeatedly that Tehran acquiring nuclear weapons is an impermissible “red line” for Israel that it will not permit. As U.S. and Iranian government representatives began holding meetings on restricting Tehran’s nuclear program April…


Over 200 at Montreal protest say ‘Stop police abuse’

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MONTREAL — More than 200 demonstrators gathered at Ovila-Legare Park in the east end here April 6 to protest the police killing of 29-year-old Abisay Cruz, the father of a 9-year-old son. Carrying signs like “Justice, stop abuse by the…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 17 - May 5, 2025

May 1, 2000 “The misery that you described in Latin America — the attacks on public education, the growing or at least persistent levels of poverty, the sell-off of the national patrimony of our countries to financial capital, the military…


Letters

Vol. 89/No. 17 - May 5, 2025

Appreciation of Omari Musa Just a note of appreciation for Omari Musa, memorialized in the April 21 issue of the Militant. My husband and I got to know Omari over several years as our guest, and at political activities. Never…



No deportations! Amnesty for all immigrant workers in US!

Vol. 89/No. 17 - May 5, 2025
In Miami, Rachele Fruit, right, and Chuck Guerra, supporters of SWP mayoral candidate Laura Anderson, discussed demand of amnesty for immigrants at “National Day of Action” April 19.

‘More workers see SWP as party they’re seeking’ “We are presenting the working-class road to take political power,” Norton Sandler, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of California, told a campaign rally in Los Angeles April 13. The SWP is…