Communist continuity in the fight against anti-Semitism

Vol. 87/No. 42 - November 13, 2023

Since the Tehran-backed Islamist Hamas carried out its organized slaughter Oct. 7, killing over 1,400 Jews, many working people are thinking about why this attack was called a “pogrom.” And they’re seeking to learn more about the bloody history of…



Workers need our own foreign policy

Vol. 87/No. 42 - November 13, 2023

Statement by Lea Sherman, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey General Assembly, Nov. 1. The one thing all the Democratic and Republican candidates for president share in common is a foreign policy based on defense of the economic and…


While Tehran backs Hamas, Iranian workers fight for pay

Vol. 87/No. 42 - November 13, 2023
While Tehran backs Hamas, Iranian workers fight for pay

Retirees and oil workers across Iran are continuing weekly protests to defend living standards while workers elsewhere are striking in the face of an annual inflation rate of 46%. At the same time, working people in Iran have largely boycotted…


Nurses picket at Minnesota hospitals for safe staffing levels

Vol. 87/No. 42 - November 13, 2023

MINNEAPOLIS — At an informational picket at the Abbott Northwestern Hospital here Oct. 26, some 100 Minnesota Nurses Association members and Service Employees International Union members who work in the same hospitals got out the word about the dangers both…


¿Por qué existe Israel?

Israel ha existido como un refugio para los judíos desde hace 75 años. Su existencia se hizo inevitable por tres hechos históricos: la traición por los partidos estalinistas contrarrevolucionarios ante las condiciones propicias para que los trabajadores tomaran el poder…



Fight Jew-hatred! Support the right of Israel to exist!

Battle against Jew-hatred is a working-class question
Vol. 87/No. 41 - November 6, 2023
Protest demands “End Jew-hatred on campus” at Columbia University, New York, Oct. 25. A Jewish student was physically assaulted there Oct. 11 by someone tearing down posters demanding Hamas release hostages seized during its Oct. 7 pogrom killing 1,400 in Israel.

More videos, Hamas instructions and other information keeps coming to light on the brutality unleashed by the reactionary Islamist group’s anti-Jewish slaughter in Israel that began Oct. 7. Financed, armed and directed by Tehran in alliance with Lebanon-based Hezbollah and…


Vote SWP! Working class needs to take political power

Vol. 87/No. 41 - November 6, 2023

Statement released Oct. 25 by John Studer, Socialist Workers Party national campaign director. Workers should cast their vote for the Socialist Workers Party Nov. 7. More importantly, they should look to the SWP’s program for a working-class road to defeat…


Why does Israel exist?

Vol. 87/No. 41 - November 6, 2023
Jewish women and children being transported to Auschwitz death camp in 1944. Nazi Holocaust murder machine killed over 6 million Jews, two out of three Jews living in Europe.

Israel has existed as a refuge for Jews for 75 years. Its existence was made inevitable by three key historical facts: the betrayal by counterrevolutionary Stalinist parties of ripe prospects for workers to take political power in Europe; the refusal…