SWP program to advance working-class struggles

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024

U.S. bosses and their government are fond of telling us that an expanding capitalist economy is like a rising tide, it “lifts all boats.” This flies in the face of what workers experience in real life. “Record profits weren’t enough…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024

March 22, 1999 CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors finished presenting their case in the frame-up trial of Puerto Rican independence activist José Solís Jordán here March 8. Solís faces charges in connection with the placing of two bombs outside a military…


Join fight against Jew-hatred! SWP: Working-class alternative to Biden-Trump

SWP presidential campaign launched at Oakland meeting
Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024
Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate Rachele Fruit presents party’s program. Left, Laura Garza, SWP candidate for Senate, Margaret Trowe, SWP candidate for vice president.

OAKLAND, Calif. — The launching of the 2024 Socialist Workers Party campaign in California was greeted with enthusiasm at a packed hall here when Rachele Fruit, the party’s candidate for president, and vice presidential candidate Margaret Trowe spoke March 2.…


UN admits Oct. 7 pogrom by Hamas included rape, torture

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024

It took five long months, but the United Nations office that supposedly fights against “conflict-related sexual violence” finally issued a report March 4 that admits there are “reasonable grounds to believe” that rape and gang rape by Hamas forces was…


Worldwide protests back Ukraine battle to defend its independence

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024
Thousands rally in Prague, Czech Republic, Feb. 24 supporting Ukraine after two years of Moscow’s invasion. Placard, center right, says in Ukrainian: “We will not forget our heroes, we will not forgive our enemies.” Similar protests took place all around the world.

Many tens of thousands of working people in Ukraine and supporters around the world of their struggle for independence took to the streets Feb. 24 to mark two important anniversaries. The first was two years since the murderous invasion of…


Ukraine unions call for solidarity against Moscow invasion

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024
Workers from the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine deliver wood, other supplies to soldiers on the frontline in war to defeat Moscow’s invasion, defend Ukraine independence.

“The priority now is defending Ukraine,” Mykhailo Volynets, chairperson of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU) and of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine, told the Militant in a phone interview Feb. 14. The vast…


New protests against Hamas as Israeli forces make progress

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024

An Israeli victory over Hamas — a group financed, organized and armed by Tehran that exists to kill Jews and drive them out of the Middle East — will be a blow to reactionary forces that promote Jew-hatred across the…


Join the fight against Jew-hatred!

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024

Statement by Lea Sherman, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress from New Jersey, Feb. 28. Jew-hatred is built into capitalist rule, spreading as this cut-throat social system breeds deepening crises and more wars. The Socialist Workers Party urges workers…


Workers face crush of price rises as bosses boost profits

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024

In spite of falling prices overall, and claims by the president’s backers in 2024 that “Bidenomics” is a smashing success, working people continue to be hammered by high prices for groceries and other necessities. This occurs as a current uptick…


25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024

March 15, 1999 WASHINGTON, D.C. — With every seat taken, and the aisles filled to capacity, some 450 farmers and their supporters packed the federal courthouse here for a day-long hearing on a proposed settlement in a class-action discrimination lawsuit…