SWP says Hamas pogrom in Israel is threat to all workers

Vol. 87/No. 40 - October 30, 2023
Joanne Kuniansky, left, SWP candidate for New Jersey State Senate, joined Oct. 15 Livingston protest against the Hamas massacre in Israel. Sign shows Jew-hatred is a threat everywhere.

Workers and our unions have a critical stake in taking on and fighting to defeat every form of Jew-hatred wherever it appears. That’s what candidates and members of the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 87/No. 40 - October 30, 2023

November 2, 1998 LONDON — In a flagrant abuse of the national sovereignty of Chile, British police arrested the country’s former military dictator, Augusto Pinochet, Oct. 17 on a warrant issued by two Spanish judges. The London Times pointed out…


Arabs, Jews in Israel unite to save survivors of Hamas assault

Vol. 87/No. 40 - October 30, 2023

Most big-business news reports on the pogrom carried out by Hamas that killed over 1,300 people in Israel Oct. 7 leave out one important fact — hundreds of Arab citizens of Israel rushed to aid the victims of the Tehran-backed…


Jew-hatred of Hamas is rooted in links with Hitlerism

Vol. 87/No. 40 - October 30, 2023

Hamas was founded in 1987 as the Palestinian wing of the Muslim Brotherhood. The terrorist group has ruled in Gaza since 2007. Central to its outlook is an all-consuming hatred of Jews, something it shares with its chief sponsor and…


Ukraine, home of Babyn Yar pogrom, stands with Israel

Vol. 87/No. 40 - October 30, 2023

Since the Oct. 7 pogrom killing over 1,300 Jews and others in Israel by the Tehran-backed terror group Hamas, there has been an outpouring of solidarity from Ukrainian people at home and abroad toward Jews and Israel. This includes from…


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…


UK rail workers fight for pay, win fired worker’s job back

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023

MANCHESTER, England — Workers employed by contractors for rail companies around the country are finding ways to fight for equal pay,  improved conditions and union rights. This occurs as workers at rail companies, members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport…


LA hotel workers fight for contract

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023

LOS ANGELES — Some three dozen striking hotel workers, beating drums and plastic buckets and blowing on vuvuzelas, picketed the Westin hotel near the Los Angeles airport Oct. 7. They were protesting the latest contract offer from the bosses, an…


Hamas in its own words: ‘Kill the Jews’

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023

Hamas claims charges that its program is based on Jew-hatred are a slander. So that our readers can judge for themselves we reproduce below quotes from the 1988 Hamas covenant, which the group has never repudiated, and is in its…


Fidel Castro: ‘Without doubt, Israel has right to exist’

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023
“Nothing compares to the Holocaust,” Fidel Castro told Jeffrey Goldberg in 2010 interview. Castro, left, with Goldberg, right, and Jewish community leader Adela Dworin in Havana, August 2010.

Since the pogrom by Hamas and its allies, Stalinists and middle-class radicals have been organizing actions under the slogan, “From the river to the sea, Palestine must be free” — a call for the destruction of Israel and slaughter of…