No guarantee you’ll have a place to live when you retire

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024

Many older workers in the U.S. confront the harsh reality that working your entire adult life doesn’t guarantee you will have a roof over your head if you retire. Millions of older adults who depend on meager Social Security benefits…


Washington forum highlights Cuba’s socialist revolution

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024

WASHINGTON — “We seek to preserve the economic and social transformation of Cuba today. To protect the rights of the Cuban people in a world more difficult and more dangerous than 1959,” Alejandro García del Toro, deputy chief of Mission…


Hamas leaders get rich raising funds to make war on Jews

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024

Hamas is a murderous, reactionary and anti-working-class outfit whose founding covenant calls for wiping Israel off the face of the earth and the slaughter of all the Jews. It has become an increasingly central link in Tehran’s “axis of resistance.”…


Join flight attendants’ rallies Feb. 13, build union solidarity!

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024
Flight attendants at LaGuardia Airport, New York, after union members voted 99.4% Aug. 30 to authorize strike in contract fight.

Working-class solidarity is crucial to strengthen today’s union struggles and build a more powerful labor movement. Flight attendants are urging fellow workers to join their picket lines at 30 airports worldwide Feb. 13 as part of the fight for new…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024

February 1, 1999 President William Clinton repeated in his State of the Union address a favorite theme of bourgeois politicians: that Social Security may be bankrupt within a few decades because a bigger section of the population is living longer…


Teamsters ‘extended picket line’ backs striking US Foods drivers

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024

BENSENVILLE, Ill. — More than 130 striking drivers at the US Foods distribution center here are getting support from fellow Teamsters around the country. Teamsters Local 705 is sending striking workers to other US Foods warehouses around the country in…


Big jump in ‘Militant’ readership behind bars

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024

The number of workers behind bars who subscribe to the Militant grew from 191 in March 2023 to more than 260 today — a 36% increase in less than a year! And there’s no sign the increase is slowing down.…


Defend right of Israel to exist as a refuge for Jews

Fight to destroy Hamas is in interests of all workers
Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024
Protest at U.N. World Court in The Hague Jan. 11 as South African rulers’ case charging Israel with ”genocide” opened. Protesters said case is political and legal cover for Hamas’ Oct. 7 pogrom against Jews in Israel, which the Tehran-backed outfit says it will do “again and again.”

Tens of thousands joined protests around the world over the Jan. 12 weekend to demand Hamas release all the remaining hostages the Tehran-backed group kidnapped as part of its murderous pogrom in Israel Oct. 7. The protests in London, Paris,…


Reactionary gov’t in Iran key to Mideast conflict

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024
Tehran, March 8, 1979: 100,000 women, men protest attempt to impose compulsory head covering on women after overturn of U.S.-backed shah. Regime wasn’t able to impose hijab until 1983, as bourgeois clerical counterrevolution consolidated. Regime is trying to extend its reactionary influence across the region.

The reactionary bourgeois clerical regime in Tehran is driven to increase its regional power and influence by force of arms. Its leaders strive to extend beyond Iran’s borders the four-decade-long political counterrevolution that pushed back the workers, farmers, women and…


SWP campaign in Oakland joins protests against attacks on Israel

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024
Margaret Trowe, SWP candidate for U.S. Congress in California’s District 12, speaks against San Leandro City Council motion for an Israeli cease-fire, which would only strengthen Hamas.

SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — The Socialist Workers Party campaign joined other supporters of Israel’s right to exist as a refuge for Jews to speak out against Jew-hatred at City Council debates here and in Alameda Jan. 2. This author is…