Tehran admits ‘strategic role’ in deadly Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom

Vol. 88/No. 16 - April 22, 2024
Palestinian Muslims praying peacefully at Al-Aqsa Mosque during month of Ramadan, including on last day April 5, above, rejecting Hamas’ call for confrontations against Israel.

The Coalition Council of Islamic Revolution Forces, one of the key political groups in Iran’s parliament, admitted April 3 that Tehran played a “strategic role … in planning and executing” the Oct. 7 pogrom in Israel, giving the lie to…


Erdogan regime faces widespread election defeats all across Turkey

Vol. 88/No. 16 - April 22, 2024
Thousands of Kurdish national rights supporters rally in Van, in eastern Turkey, April 5. Protests forced seating of Kurdish opposition candidate Erdogan tried to bar from office.

The two-decades-long domination of Turkish politics by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was shaken March 31 when his Islamist-based Justice and Development Party (AKP) suffered an unexpected and unprecedented defeat in nationwide municipal elections. For the first time the secular opposition…




Court gag orders to shut Trump up are blow to free speech

Vol. 88/No. 16 - April 22, 2024

Judge Juan Merchan issued a gag order March 26 in an effort to further silence Donald Trump, President Joseph Biden’s main rival among the three main capitalist candidates for the White House. This assault on free speech is an attempt…


Solidarity with flight attendants fight!

Vol. 88/No. 16 - April 22, 2024

The Association of Flight Attendants union called protests at nearly 20 airports in the United States, Guam and the United Kingdom for April 11. It’s one of many protests the three flight attendants’ unions have called in their hard-fought battle…


Calif. nurses: ‘We’re out here striking for our patients’

Vol. 88/No. 16 - April 22, 2024
Striking nurses picket at Santa Clara County hospital in Gilroy, California, April 3. They are protesting bosses’ failure to take steps to eliminate understaffing that impacts care for patients.

GILROY, Calif. — Nurses carried out a spirited four-day strike at Santa Clara County hospitals April 2-5, with loud picket lines outside two hospitals in San Jose and one here. When supporters of the Socialist Workers Party campaign of Rachele…



Campaigners take SWP program far and wide

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024
After talking to Lea Sherman, SWP candidate for U.S. Congress from New Jersey, March 30, Amazon worker Wilson Cruz got Militant subscription, signed to put Rachele Fruit on ballot.

As part of campaigning across the country for Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, SWP supporters have kicked off a three-week effort to put her, along with Margaret Trowe for vice president and Joanne Kuniansky, the SWP…


Putin regime cracks down on Central Asian immigrants

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024
Central Asian immigrant workers detained during Russian police raid on construction site in Moscow days after March 22 Islamic State terror attack. Kremlin has stepped up these arrests, deportations, while smearing Ukraine and its fight for sovereignty as responsible for the attack.

In the wake of the March 22 deadly Moscow terror attack by Islamic State Khorasan, a reactionary Islamist outfit, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime is targeting Muslim immigrants from Central Asia. The Kremlin is conducting police raids across the country…