UK meeting draws lessons from Grenada Revolution

Vol. 87/No. 46 - December 11, 2023
London meeting of 40 Nov. 18 discusses importance of Maurice Bishop and Grenada Revolution for working-class politics today. At podium, Matthew Lord, who joined the revolution there at age 14. From left, Jonathan Silberman, Communist League in U.K.; Michel Rodríguez, first secretary of the Cuban Embassy in London; and chair Ólof Andra Proppé.

LONDON — “The revolution was moving the country forward for the working class. That’s why I got involved,” Matthew Lord told 40 people at a “Maurice Bishop and the Grenadian Revolution” meeting here Nov. 18. Also on the platform at…


Unions need to fight against Jew-hatred

Vol. 87/No. 45 - December 4, 2023

Statement by Laura Garza, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from California, Nov. 21. The systematic slaughter of 1,200 Jews by Hamas, backed by the counterrevolutionary regime in Tehran Oct. 7 marks a watershed in world politics, accelerating the…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 87/No. 45 - December 4, 2023

December 7, 1998 During the sixth national congress of the Union of Artists and Writers of Cuba, held in Havana November 5-7, Cuban President Fidel Castro talked with journalists from the Cuban press. “In Cuba we had to create a…


Ohio abortion referendum was blow to women, working class

Vol. 87/No. 45 - December 4, 2023
Militant United Food and Commercial Workers Local 23D members struck Heaven Hill distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky, September 2021, for better work schedules, family time, overtime pay.

CINCINNATI — After a national campaign organized by the Democratic Party, drawing in tens of millions of dollars, an amendment to enshrine the right to abortion in Ohio’s state constitution passed Nov. 7. The campaign had nothing to do with…


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Israelis fight to prevent modern-day Holocaust
Vol. 87/No. 45 - December 4, 2023

More facts continue to come out that highlight the depravity of the Hamas death squads, financed and orchestrated by Tehran, that murdered 1,200 people in Israel Oct. 7, wounded 5,400 more and kidnapped 240 hostages to Gaza. It was the…


Hamas uses hospitals as bases, armories, prisons

Vol. 87/No. 45 - December 4, 2023
Parking lot of Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City hit Oct. 18 by Islamic Jihad rocket that misfired. New York Times, other liberal media, repeated Hamas lies that Israeli strike hit the hospital.

Since thousands of Hamas thugs swept out of Gaza Oct. 7 — carrying out the worst pogrom against Jews since the Holocaust — one pointed question is, where is Hamas based? The answer? Their command posts, bases and arms depots…


‘Bidenomics’: A boon for the rich, poorhouse for workers

Vol. 87/No. 45 - December 4, 2023

The Joseph Biden administration boasts its economic policies — dubbed “Bidenomics” — will lead to the president keeping the White House in 2024. But the real-life experience of tens of millions of workers is increasing their uncertainty about the future,…


UP rail bosses furlough 1,350 track workers, risk disaster

Vol. 87/No. 45 - December 4, 2023

LINCOLN, Neb. — After Union Pacific Railroad bosses announced in October they were going to furlough 1,350 track-maintenance workers in the next month, Tony Cardwell, president of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division union that organizes these workers,…