Protesters hit gov’t role in death of South Africa gold miners

Vol. 89/No. 7 - February 24, 2025

Public protests took place in Cape Town and Pretoria Feb. 5 in solidarity with the immigrant gold miners killed by starvation as they were forced to stay for weeks in the deep underground gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa. Demanding…


Bosses trade conflicts pit workers against each other

Vol. 89/No. 7 - February 24, 2025

President Donald Trump’s administration imposed stiff tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports to the U.S. Feb. 10, claiming the duties will defend jobs for workers in those and related industries and are in the interests of “all Americans.” In…



Nazi murderer fled to Syria, joined Assads’ brutal regime

Vol. 89/No. 7 - February 24, 2025

Millions took to the streets in Syria celebrating the overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad dictatorship in December. Thousands were freed from jails, especially from the notorious Saydnaya Prison, known as the “Human Slaughterhouse,” where as many as 15,000 people were…


Malcolm X: Washington ‘can’t win in Congo, South Vietnam’

Vol. 89/No. 7 - February 24, 2025
“Hands off Congo” picket at U.N. December 1964, called by Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialist Alliance, protesting intervention in Congo by rulers of the U.S. and Belgium. In front, Richard Garza, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate; third is Clifton DeBerry, SWP 1964 candidate for president. Inset, Malcolm X speaking at a rally in Harlem, June 23, 1963.

Feb. 21 marks the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X. The excerpt below is from February 1965: The Final Speeches by Malcolm X, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. It is from a speech entitled…


Join fight to overturn ban on the ‘Militant’ in jail in Phoenix

Vol. 89/No. 7 - February 24, 2025

The fight to lift the ban on the Nov. 11, 2024, Militant by authorities at Lower Buckeye Jail in Phoenix is an important part of defending the constitutional freedoms of all working people, whether you’re inside or outside prison walls.…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 7 - February 24, 2025

February 21, 2000 Britain should get its troops, cops, and secret police out of Ireland now. That should be the demand of every working person, union member and farmer, especially in the United Kingdom and the United States. The mobilizations…


SWP candidates point road forward for working people

‘Break with bosses parties, build a party of labor’
Vol. 89/No. 7 - February 24, 2025
Teacher’s aide Johana Perez tells Eric Simpson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Oakland, Feb. 5 that she likes party’s program backing amnesty for undocumented immigrants.

The Socialist Workers Party is launching a national slate of candidates in 2025 — a bold working-class campaign that points a road forward for the growing number of workers repelled by the pro-boss politics of the Democrats, Republicans and handful…


Israel’s fight to prevent a new Holocaust is at a new stage

Vol. 89/No. 7 - February 24, 2025
Hamas propaganda ceremony with Israeli hostages Eli Sharabi, Or Levy and Ohad Ben Ami Feb. 8. Hamas seeks to reassert its dictatorship in Gaza, prepare new pogroms against Jews.

The increasingly unstable character of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza was highlighted Feb. 10 when Hamas announced it was putting off release of three Israeli hostages set for Feb. 15 “until further notice.” This underscores why the…


10,000 grocery workers strike King Soopers in Colorado

Vol. 89/No. 7 - February 24, 2025

Spirited picket lines are up at 79 King Soopers grocery stores in Colorado after 10,000 workers, members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, walked off the job Feb. 6 and 7. The chain, owned by Kroger, is the…