LA, Oakland SWP speak out against Tehran’s war moves

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024
“Fight against Jew-hatred is a life-or-death question for the working class worldwide,” Candace Wagner, SWP candidate for Congress from Pittsburgh, told rally in defense of Israel March 31.

LOS ANGELES — “Yesterday and last night Tehran launched 320 drones, ballistic and cruise missiles at Israel. Almost all of them were shot down,” said Socialist Workers Party National Committee member Norton Sandler to an April 14 meeting here. Sandler…


US rulers form new Asia bloc against Beijing

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024
Above, warships from Philippines, foreground, Japan, Australia and U.S. sail in formation off Philippines coast April 7. Inset, China Coast Guard ship fires water cannon at vessel taking supplies to Philippine-occupied shoal in disputed region of South China Sea March 5, area also known as West Philippine Sea.

President Joseph Biden hosted a first-ever joint meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., at the White House, April 11. The three government heads announced increased military and economic cooperation. To defend U.S. ruling-class…


Food workers strike Aramark in Philadelphia over wages, benefits

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024
Hundreds of Aramark food service workers who staff concessions at stadiums and arenas in South Philadelphia hold one-day strike April 9 demanding better wages, health care.

PHILADELPHIA — Hundreds of exuberant food service workers at the Wells Fargo Center here went on a one-day strike April 9 against their boss, Aramark. The workers staff concession stands at Philadelphia Flyers, 76ers and Wings games, as well as…



Molson Coors workers stand strong in Texas strike

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024

SOUTH FORT WORTH, Texas — Members of Teamsters Local 997 at Molson Coors here are standing firm in their strike against the brewery bosses. The strike began Feb. 17 after 93% of the local’s members voted to reject the bosses’…



Support Israel’s right to exist, defend itself as a refuge from Jew-hatred and pogroms!

Working people need to reject Biden’s demand that Israel not respond
Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024
Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate, in Los Angeles. “The SWP calls on working people to condemn pressure by the U.S. government of Joseph Biden to dictate to Israel what it must or must not do to defend itself as a refuge for the Jews,” she said April 15.

Statement released April 15 by Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president of the United States. SWP presidential candidate Rachele Fruit is working-class alternative to capitalism’s march to depression and war The Socialist Workers Party calls on working people…


The fight against Jew-hatred and pogroms in the imperialist epoch

Stakes for the international working class
Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024
Pogroms, yesterday and today. Top, Hamas parades Jewish man murdered by death squad Oct. 7 past cheering supporters in Gaza City. Massacre in southern Israel was deadliest single attack on Jews since Hitler’s “Final Solution.” Bottom, using what Bolshevik leader V.I. Lenin called “the most savage and furious methods,” tsarist-inspired pogromists in 1906 murdered 80 Jews in Belostok, in what is now Poland. Photo shows Jewish family after assault.

Below is the opening chapter by Socialist Workers Party leader Dave Prince of the new book, The Fight Against Jew-Hatred and Pogroms in the Imperialist Epoch: Stakes for the International Working Class. Other chapters feature writings by revolutionary Marxist leaders…



Memphis BCTGM workers return to work, fight goes on

Vol. 88/No. 17 - April 29, 2024

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — After almost 10 months of a hard-fought strike battle, members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 390G at International Flavors and Fragrances here decided March 28 to return to work and continue their…