SWP: Break with the bosses’ parties, build a party of labor

Vol. 89/No. 6 - February 17, 2025
“Thank you for all you are doing,” caregiver Nimo Shafi told SWP campaign supporters Joanne Murphy and Tyler Phorn-Hurtgen in Minneapolis Feb. 2 as she bought a Militant subscription.

Supporters of the Socialist Workers Party’s 2025 campaigns are discussing with fellow workers on their doorsteps, on strike picket lines and elsewhere what we can do to defend ourselves from the impact of the unfolding capitalist crisis. One important question…


Amnesty for immigrant workers in the US! No to deportations!

Vol. 89/No. 6 - February 17, 2025
Over 1,000 protesters marched in Minneapolis Feb. 1 demanding end to government arrests and deportations of immigrant workers. Similar protests took place all across the country.

One thousand immigrant workers and others marched in Minneapolis Feb. 1, one of many actions in defense of the rights of immigrants across the country. “We need to be here, there is no work in our country to help the…




One-day strike by Kurds in Iran demands end to death penalty

Vol. 89/No. 5 - February 10, 2025

A one-day strike shut down businesses and schools all across the Kurdish region of Iran Jan. 22, demanding the revocation of death sentences for Pakhshan Azizi and Warisheh Moradi. These two Kurdish women are accused by Tehran of belonging to…


Sankara: ‘Semicolonial people’s foreign debt is unpayable’

Vol. 89/No. 5 - February 10, 2025
Fidel Castro welcomes Thomas Sankara in Havana Sept. 25, 1984. Sankara, a communist, looked to Castro’s Marxist leadership and the voluntary mobilizations of workers and peasants in Cuba’s socialist revolution as he led a popular, democratic revolution in Burkina Faso.

The French edition of Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87 is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. In 1983 Sankara led an uprising in the former French colony of Upper Volta, bringing to power a…


For Israel’s defeat of Hamas, end to Tehran’s nuclear threat

Vol. 89/No. 5 - February 10, 2025
Rafael Hasid, Israeli owner of Miriam Restaurant in Brooklyn. He left up Jan. 25 antisemitic graffiti so that people can “see that things like that happen.” Tehran-backed Hamas war to destroy Israel has sparked rise in anti-Jewish violence worldwide, a deadly threat to all workers.

The unstable ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, and the release of more Israeli hostages, along with Israel’s freeing of hundreds of Hamas thugs ready to return to duty, does not resolve the key challenge facing the people of Israel —…


Israel, the Holocaust and Oct. 7 pogrom

Vol. 89/No. 5 - February 10, 2025

The stakes for workers in the U.S., the Middle East and worldwide are enormous in backing Israel’s unfinished battle to defeat Hamas and Hezbollah once and for all, and to destroy the ability of the reactionary capitalist regime in Iran…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 89/No. 5 - February 10, 2025

February 7, 2000 CHARLESTON, South Carolina — Cops in full riot gear attacked an early morning march to the waterfront by hundreds of members of the International Longshoremen’s Association Jan. 20. Eight of the unionists are now facing frame-up charges…


Working class responds to LA fires disaster with solidarity

Vol. 89/No. 5 - February 10, 2025
Roger Dagoberto Cruz, left, a gutter installer, told Eric Simpson, SWP candidate for mayor of Oakland, that when work is slow he volunteers at the local job center to help others get work.

ALTADENA, Calif. — “Under capitalism, every time a disaster happens, the bosses and their politicians merely recreate the same conditions for it to happen again,” said Eric Simpson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Oakland mayor and a union factory worker,…