Israeli army command refused to wake Netanyahu as Hamas pogrom loomed

Vol. 88/No. 49 - December 30, 2024

A year and a half before Hamas and Tehran launched their murderous Oct. 7, 2023, pogrom, the Israel Defense Forces Military Intelligence Directorate obtained a 40-page Hamas document. It “laid out almost exactly how Hamas eventually wound up carrying out…


Workers and farmers in Indonesia protest gov’t attacks

Vol. 88/No. 49 - December 30, 2024
Militant correspondent Steve Penner, left, meets with representatives of Confederation of Indonesia People’s Movement in Jakarta Nov. 12. General Secretary Anwar Sastro Ma’ruf is second from right.

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Thousands of workers joined demonstrations here in Indonesia’s capital city Oct. 24 and across the country in the following days. The actions protested anti-labor measures in the Omnibus Law imposed in 2020 by former President Joko Widodo…


Liberals, left hail Mangione’s killing of health care CEO

Vol. 88/No. 49 - December 30, 2024

NEW YORK — After staking out the site, an armed attacker waited in the early morning here Dec. 4 until Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, walked by on his way to a work conference. The gunman approached him from…


Works by SWP leaders find keen interest at Guadalajara book fair

Vol. 88/No. 49 - December 30, 2024
Jacob Perasso, SWP member and volunteer at Pathfinder booth, discusses Pathfinder books with two call center workers at Guadalajara International Book Fair in Mexico Dec. 4.

GUADALAJARA, Mexico — Pointing to books on Cuba’s socialist revolution, the fight for women’s emancipation and titles by Karl Marx, Libertad Segura Meza said she was surprised to see so many books on working-class politics. The high school teacher was…


Back Ukraine’s fight to repel Moscow’s invasion

Vol. 88/No. 49 - December 30, 2024

Russian President Vladimir Putin is driving to conquer more territory in Ukraine’s southeast despite the staggering loss of the lives and limbs of Russian workers in uniform. Moscow’s bombardment of Ukraine’s cities and power grid continues to strike blows at…


Freedom for Boualem Sansal! Algeria gov’t imprisons prize-winning novelist

Vol. 88/No. 48 - December 23, 2024

The Algerian government has imprisoned prominent French Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal on charges of violating national security. The 75-year-old writer is an outspoken critic of reactionary Islamism, authoritarianism, and government attacks on freedom of expression. He was disappeared for a…


Georgia protesters defy attacks from pro-Moscow government

Vol. 88/No. 48 - December 23, 2024
Mass demonstration in Tbilisi, Georgia, Nov. 28 after pro-Moscow Georgian Dream government announced plans to postpone talks on joining EU until at least 2028. Daily nationwide protests call for fresh elections in defiance of brutal attacks by security forces.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators continue to protest across Georgia after the pro-Moscow Georgian Dream government announced plans Nov. 28 to postpone talks on joining the European Union until at least 2028. Undeterred by brutal attacks from security forces, protesters…


‘Cuba’s revolution showed us we can do the same thing in the US’

Vol. 88/No. 48 - December 23, 2024
Cuban militia members celebrate victory over U.S.-backed mercenary invasion at Bay of Pigs in April 1961. Fidel Castro led toilers to deepen, defend first socialist revolution in the Americas.

On Jan. 1, 1959, Fidel Castro led Cuba’s working people to victory, ousting the U.S.-backed military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. To mark that anniversary, we are featuring Cuba and the Coming American Revolution by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the…


The working class must take political power

Vol. 88/No. 48 - December 23, 2024

The overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria is being celebrated all across that country and worldwide. It is a major setback to the reactionary capitalist regime in Iran. It follows the powerful blows struck by Israel Defense Forces…


Fall of Assad shakes Mideast, US-led imperialist world order

Vol. 88/No. 48 - December 23, 2024
People in Aleppo, Syria, Dec. 8 celebrate fall of brutal Bashar al-Assad regime. Israel’s blows to Hezbollah and Iranian forces, and the weakening of Moscow by Ukrainian resistance to its invasion, left Assad’s unpopular government to collapse in face of the weeklong rebel uprising.

The overthrow of the 50-year bloody dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad and his father is a consequence of the world-shaking impact of the resistance to Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, anti-Jewish pogrom in Israel and Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.  Like those two…