True Jimmy Carter: Defender of US capitalist rule, wars

Vol. 89/No. 4 - February 3, 2025

The bourgeois press, particularly the liberal-run media, has gone to great lengths to portray recently deceased Democratic Party politician and former President James Earl Carter Jr. as a “humanitarian” and “peacemaker.” Carter was the 39th president, the executive officer for…


UK food workers strike at Princes for higher wages

Vol. 89/No. 4 - February 3, 2025
Members of Unite union on strike against Princes food company picket plant in Long Sutton, England, Jan. 14 in strike for pay raise. Fellow unionists on strike against Bakkavor for nearly four months joined in solidarity.

LONG SUTTON, England — Some 300 members of Unite, the union at the Princes food company here, walked out Jan. 7. Princes produces canned fish, meat, vegetables, soft drinks and pickles. Their action was part of a series of strikes,…


Ukraine coal miners fight gov’t attacks, resist Moscow’s war

Vol. 89/No. 4 - February 3, 2025
Members of Independent Trade Union of Mineworkers of Ukraine from Lviv Coal State Enterprise protest at Ministry of Energy in Kyiv Aug. 1 demanding payment of wage arrears.

Ukrainian working people are the heart and soul of the fight to defend their country’s sovereignty against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s murderous invasion. Ukrainian workers also bear the biggest effects of the economic burden of the war on production, transportation…


Exhibit: Bolshevik Revolution unleashed Ukraine culture

Vol. 89/No. 4 - February 3, 2025

LONDON — How the 1905 and 1917 revolutions in Russia affected the development of modern art and culture in Ukraine was the focus of the exhibit “In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s.” On display here last…



Why the Holocaust made the creation of Israel inevitable

Vol. 89/No. 4 - February 3, 2025
Sept. 7, 1947, protest in British-run Bergen-Belsen Jewish displaced persons camp after British navy rammed and boarded the ship Exodus, forcing Jewish passengers trying to reach Palestine back to Europe.

Underground to Palestine by I.F. Stone. Hassell Street Press. 264 pages. $26.06. Reprinted 2021. BY SETH GALINSKY Leading up to and during World War II, Adolf Hitler’s Nazis murdered 6 million Jews. That was two out of every three Jews…


Why Trump wants to take over Greenland, the Panama Canal

Vol. 89/No. 03 - January 27, 2025
A U.S. ballistic missile early warning and satellite surveillance system at U.S. Pituffik Space Base in Greenland. Washington seeks greater control over Greenland as competition with Beijing and Moscow grows for strategic bases and trade routes in the Arctic region.

President-elect Donald Trump has announced he intends to pursue gaining control over Greenland, as well as the Panama Canal, to advance the interests of the U.S. ruling class against its competitors abroad, especially Beijing and Moscow. Since Russian President Vladimir…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 89/No. 03 - January 27, 2025

January 24, 2000 BIRMINGHAM — “Farmers want to go to Atlanta because they haven’t received any debt relief or money, or have been outright turned down. They want justice,” said David Howard, a cotton and soy bean farmer from Mississippi,…


SWP uses ‘Militant’ to discuss world politics, class struggle

Vol. 89/No. 03 - January 27, 2025

Socialist Workers Party members, and members of the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, are using the Militant to discuss with working people the big political questions facing our class worldwide. They are taking the paper to…


Los Angeles forum celebrates Cuba’s socialist revolution

Vol. 89/No. 03 - January 27, 2025

LOS ANGELES — Despite the catastrophic fires burning across the area, the Militant Labor Forum here held a special meeting Jan. 10, celebrating the 66th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. “The wildfires raging through the Los Angeles area are a…