Help make the SWP Party-Building Fund a success!

Vol. 87/No. 41 - November 6, 2023

The Party-Building Fund, part of the campaign to reach out with the Militant and books by Socialist Workers Party leaders and other revolutionaries, runs for eight weeks, from Sept. 23 through Nov. 21. It is at the heart of covering…


Detroit casino workers strike over wages, health benefits

Vol. 87/No. 41 - November 6, 2023
Hundreds of strikers from Detroit’s three big casinos march through the city Oct. 19. The 3,700 workers on strike are demanding higher wages, protection of health care benefits.

DETROIT — “Strike City! Detroit is Strike City!” The chant echoed through Hart Plaza here as hundreds of strikers from Detroit’s three big casinos, their family members and other unionists rallied Oct. 19, the third day of their walkout. The…


Hamas was built to kill Jews, with disdain for Palestinians

Vol. 87/No. 41 - November 6, 2023

The cold-blooded massacre of over 1,400 people, overwhelmingly Jews, in Israel Oct. 7 by Tehran-backed Hamas was consistent with the Islamist group’s reactionary course since it was established decades ago. Several dozen Thai and Nepalese farmworkers and Bedouin Arabs were…



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…


From jobs to wages, workers face effects of capitalist crisis

Vol. 87/No. 40 - October 30, 2023

Facts and figures put a lie to the claims being made by the Joseph Biden administration and his boosters in the liberal capitalist media that aim to puff up his reelection bid by saying job opportunities are expanding and prospects…


UAW expands strike at Big Three, 34,000 on picket lines

Vol. 87/No. 40 - October 30, 2023
UAW Local 862 members on strike at Ford Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville Oct. 14. “Our priority is to protect jobs and workers’ livelihoods,” Local President Todd Dunn told the Militant.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Workers at the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant here, members of United Auto Workers Local 862, walked off the job Oct. 11, bringing the number of UAW workers on strike against the Big Three to over 34,000. They…


Support Memphis bakery workers strike over wages, safety and respect

Vol. 87/No. 40 - October 30, 2023
Cedric Wilson, right, president of BCTGM Local 390G on strike at International Flavors and Fragrances in Memphis,Tennessee, speaks at Oct. 18 rally outside IFF headquarters in New York. “We have union members with cancer, people with kids, some are losing their homes. But they’re all still in the fight,” he said. “There’s no other way, you have to fight.”

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — On the picket line at the International Flavors and Fragrances plant Oct. 11, strikers Darold Brooks, a mechanic, and Thad Beckman, a lead man, told this Militant  worker-correspondent about the horrendous safety record of the bosses here.…