‘There is no solution to the Jewish question under capitalism’

Vol. 87/No. 22 - June 5, 2023
Some 50,000 workers responded to call by Socialist Workers Party to protest fascist meeting of 20,000 in New York, Feb. 20, 1939. A key lesson of fight by SWP, Minneapolis Teamsters against bosses and Nazi thugs was unions need to champion the struggle against Jew-hatred.

The French edition of The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation by Abram Leon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. Leon’s centurieslong history of the Jewish people and the struggle against Jew-hatred was begun on the eve…



25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 87/No. 22 - June 5, 2023

June 8, 1998 Striking Russian coal miners in Siberia and the North Caucasus lifted their blockade of the Trans-Siberian railway May 24 after government officials promised to pay overdue wages. Miners in Inta, near the Polar Circle, on strike since…


Support Ukraine independence! Defeat Moscow’s bloody invasion!

Vol. 87/No. 22 - June 5, 2023
Shelled building in destroyed city of Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine. Moscow’s forces suffered devastating losses during nine months of combat there, taking most of the city by May 20. Ukrainian forces took hills to west of city. They’re planning to launch a counteroffensive.

On May 20 Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner mercenary army claimed it had pushed Ukrainian forces defending Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine out of the devastated city. For nine months it has been the bloodiest battleground in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attempts to…


Join fight for freedom for Carlos Harris!

Vol. 87/No. 22 - June 5, 2023

OAKLAND, Calif. — Rachel and Aisha Hampton, the mother and cousin of unjustly imprisoned Carlos Harris, are asking that letters supporting his freedom be sent to them as he faces a resentencing hearing June 7. Harris was falsely accused of…


Forum protests FBI attacks on constitutional freedoms

Vol. 87/No. 22 - June 5, 2023
Minneapolis Militant Labor Forum May 20 protests government, FBI attacks on political rights. From left, Kevin Dwire, SWP; Cynthia Wilson, Minneapolis NAACP president; chair Gabrielle Prosser, SWP candidate for City Council; Leah Fifield, Uhuru Solidarity Movement.

MINNEAPOLIS — Some 30 people attended a Militant Labor Forum here May 20, “Oppose Government Spying and Harassment; Defend Political Freedoms Under Assault.” The speakers were Leah Fifield, from the Uhuru Solidarity Movement; Cynthia Wilson, president of the Minneapolis NAACP;…


Join SWP candidates, reach out with the ‘Militant’

Vol. 87/No. 22 - June 5, 2023

Over the coming weeks, members of the Socialist Workers Party, and the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and United Kingdom will be building on the successful completion of their spring campaigns that expanded the reach of the Militant by over…


Iran oil workers: ‘Death penalty threatens everyone’

Vol. 87/No. 22 - June 5, 2023
May 18 rally in Junqan, a city in Iran’s Chaharmahal-Bahktiari Province, commemorating death of Jamshid Mokhtari, killed a year ago during protests over sharp hike in price of bread.

The May 19 execution of three men active in “Women, Life, Freedom” protests in Isfahan has fueled demonstrations against the death penalty in Iran and around the world. The government alleged that Saleh Mirhashemi, a karate champion and coach; Majid…


Crimean Tatars mark mass 1944 deportation by Stalin

Vol. 87/No. 22 - June 5, 2023

The Crimean Tatar people have fought for centuries to defend their national rights as a people, since they were conquered and subjugated by Czarina Catherine II in 1783. May 18 marked the 79th anniversary of the forced deportation of Crimean…