Protests mark one-year anniversary since death of Zhina Amini in Iran

Vol. 87/No. 36 - October 2, 2023
Sept. 16 protest in New York, above, and around world on anniversary of death of young Kurdish woman Zhina Amini. She died in Tehran after arrest by Iran’s hated “morality police.” Demands included end to counterrevolutionary regime’s repression, release of all political prisoners.

Demonstrations took place around the world Sept. 16 to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the death of Zhina Amini, a young Kurdish woman who died after her arrest by the hated “morality police” in Tehran, accused of violating the dress…


Working people in Ukraine fight to drive Putin out and retake Crimea

Vol. 87/No. 36 - October 2, 2023

Crushing the Ukrainian nation and its people is at the heart of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s determined effort to reestablish the Russian Empire with himself as czar. But his invasion has run up against fierce Ukrainian resistance, with working people…


Washington seeks bloc with Vietnam in China conflict

Vol. 87/No. 36 - October 2, 2023

Drawn together by common interests in countering Beijing’s expansionist course, Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party, met with President Joseph Biden in Hanoi Sept. 10. “The United States is a Pacific nation, and we’re not going…


SWP campaign wins hearing for party program, solidarity with UAW

Vol. 87/No. 36 - October 2, 2023
Socialist Workers Party member Betsy Farley, right, discusses significance of United Auto Workers strike with Local 12 members on the picket line in Toledo, Ohio, Sept. 18.

At plant gates, demonstrations, on workers’ doorsteps and strike picket lines, Socialist Workers Party candidates and supporters get a serious hearing on the party’s program and respect for their efforts to get out the truth about working-class struggles and build…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 87/No. 36 - October 2, 2023

October 5, 1998 MUTAWINTJI, Australia — In the culmination of a 15-year fight, more than 500 Aborigines and their supporters from around eastern Australia gathered at newly renamed Mutawintji National Park Sept. 5 for a day of celebration to mark…


Solidarity with UAW strike! Fight for whole working class

Vol. 87/No. 36 - October 2, 2023
United Auto Workers rally in Detroit Sept. 15, as UAW struck assembly plants at Stellantis in Toledo, Ohio; General Motors in Wentzville, Missouri; and Ford in Wayne, Michigan.

TOLEDO, Ohio — There is a working-class battle taking place in the auto industry today that all workers should support. Some 13,000 United Auto Workers’ members went on strike Sept. 15 at the Ford plant in Wayne, Michigan; General Motors…


Correction

Vol. 87/No. 36 - October 2, 2023

In Militant issue no. 35, the Socialist Workers Party statement titled “Protest Abbas’ defense of the Holocaust” should have read, “Some two-thirds of European Jews [not all Jews] were killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust.”


As 2024 nears, Democrats step up attacks on political rights

Vol. 87/No. 36 - October 2, 2023
Boston cops seize socialist literature during 1919-20 Palmer Raids. Inset, Victor Berger’s 1918 Socialist Party election campaign. Congress voted 309-1 to bar him from office after he won.

The Democrats’ seven-year-long relentless campaign to drive Donald Trump out of politics and bar him from running for president in 2024 is becoming more frantic as the primaries come nearer. President Joseph Biden’s Justice Department and Democratic prosecutors in Georgia…


Prisoner hunger strike in Bahrain inspires protests

Vol. 87/No. 35 - September 25, 2023

Since Aug. 7, more than 800 prisoners in Bahrain have been conducting that country’s largest-ever hunger strike, protesting intolerable conditions, including systematic mistreatment, medical neglect and limited visitation. Their actions have inspired street protests led by prisoners’ families, above, calling…


Military coup in Gabon keeps power in Bongo family

Vol. 87/No. 35 - September 25, 2023

Minutes after Ali Bongo Ondimba was reelected to a third term as president of Gabon Aug. 30, a coup led by Brice Clothaire Oligui Nguema, head of the country’s central security forces, overthrew the government. Ali Bongo became president in…