Daily Georgia protests: ‘Down with pro-Moscow gov’t’

Vol. 89/No. 2 - January 20, 2025

There is overwhelming support inside Georgia for the weeks of large protests there demanding a new election — and for the unwavering determination by demonstrators not to back down. Under this pressure, the government has pulled back from its earlier…


Milk-Bone strike, labor solidarity win new contract, strengthen union

Vol. 89/No. 1 - January 13, 2025

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The 165 members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 36G at J.M. Smucker’s Milk-Bone factory here are scheduled to return to work Jan. 2 after seven weeks on strike. Workers voted in their majority…


Iran: Shopkeepers, truckers protest soaring prices

Vol. 89/No. 1 - January 13, 2025
Iran: Shopkeepers, truckers protest soaring prices

Hundreds of shopkeepers at several bazaars in Tehran, above, shut down their stalls Dec. 29 and protested over soaring prices, skyrocketing rents, raw material shortages and government disdain. The protest began with fabric merchants and shoemakers and spread. The plummeting…


SWP, ‘Militant’ campaign to discuss shifts in world politics

Vol. 89/No. 1 - January 13, 2025
“I don’t like Democrats or Republicans,” truck driver Victor Torres, right, told SWP members Gerardo Sánchez and Alyson Kennedy in Euless, Texas, Dec. 29. “They blame immigrants for problems.” He got a Militant subscription and The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us.

Recent political developments shaking world politics have stirred discussions among workers about a road forward, from the advances made by Israel in dealing blows to Hamas, Hezbollah and the rulers in Tehran; the fall of the Bashar al-Assad tyranny in…


SWP put FBI on trial, won victory for constitutional protections

Vol. 89/No. 1 - January 13, 2025
FBI raided the Socialist Workers Party headquarters in Minneapolis in June 1941, as Roosevelt administration moved to silence opposition in the unions to the U.S. rulers’ preparations to drag workers into the second imperialist world war over markets, profits, political power.

FBI on Trial: The Victory in the Socialist Workers Party Suit Against Government Spying is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. In 1987 the SWP won its 15-year legal and political battle against decades of illegal FBI…



25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 89/No. 1 - January 13, 2025

January 10, 2000 NEW YORK CITY — The Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court ruled Dec. 16 that the cops charged with brutally gunning down Amadou Diallo, a 22-year-old worker from Guinea, are to be tried in…



Is ‘fascism’ coming on January 20?

Vol. 89/No. 1 - January 13, 2025

As 2024 came to a close, Financial Times chief foreign affairs columnist Gideon Rachman insisted President-elect Donald Trump is “reviving aspects of the fascist tradition.” He also claims that Democrats lost the 2024 election because they “overestimated the depth of…


Culture flourishes in Ukraine while artists, actors are jailed in Russia

Vol. 89/No. 1 - January 13, 2025
Kyiv theater director and actor Yevhen Nyshchuk addresses audience before performance to thank them for their commitment. Like many of his colleagues, he volunteered for the army to defend Ukraine from Moscow’s 2022 invasion and gets leave from the front to perform.

Working people in Ukraine have tenaciously defended their country’s sovereignty against almost three years of an all-out invasion by the Vladimir Putin regime in Moscow. As part of conducting this war, Putin has carried out a systematic and brutal assault…