The Jewish question can only be resolved by the working class

Vol. 86/No. 43 - November 21, 2022
Socialist Workers Party called November 1938 protest in New York demanding Washington open entry to the U.S. to Jewish refugees. Action was called after Kristallnacht, when Nazi storm troopers rounded up 30,000 Jews, destroyed Jewish businesses, synagogues in Germany.

The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation by Abram Leon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. Leon was won from Zionism to Marxism by supporters of Leon Trotsky. He wrote the book while a leader of the…



25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 86/No. 43 - November 21, 2022

November 24, 1997 HAVANA — “In the present international conditions, we reaffirm that socialism is a necessity,” said Cuban leader José Ramón Balaguer to the Oct. 21-23 international workshop here on “Socialism as the 21st Century Approaches.” “The contradiction between…


Capitalist crisis fuels inflation as production, trade stagnate

Vol. 86/No. 43 - November 21, 2022
Over 45,000 march in Madrid Nov. 3, called by Spain’s two largest union federations, General Union of Workers and Workers’ Commissions. They demanded wage raises to keep up with prices. Banner says, “Working people should not have to pay for the crisis: wages or conflict.”

The worldwide capitalist crisis is hitting working people hard, with increasing indications that we face an extended period of stagflation — a combination of continued rising prices with falling capitalist production, trade and workers’ jobs. Soaring prices, especially on basic…



Liberals push to cancel book by Justice Amy Coney Barrett

Vol. 86/No. 43 - November 21, 2022

In an unbridled attack on freedom of speech, hundreds of editors, writers, publishers, librarians and a wide variety of other individuals have signed an online petition demanding that Penguin Random House halt plans to publish a book by U.S. Supreme…


NY meeting hits FBI harassment in Puerto Rico

Vol. 86/No. 42 - November 14, 2022
Oct. 28 event in People’s Church in New York. From left, Rev. Dorlimar Lebrón, chair; Milagros Rivera, Cuba Solidarity Committee in Puerto Rico; Gail Walker, Pastors for Peace; Oronde Lumumba Shakur, African People’s Socialist Party; Ana López, Frente Independentista Boricua; and Martín Koppel, SWP.

NEW YORK — “The FBI will not intimidate us!” Milagros Rivera, president of the Cuba Solidarity Committee in Puerto Rico, told an audience of 120 people here Oct. 28. “We will continue to fight for the freedom of our homeland,”…


Northwest woodworkers settle strike against Weyerhaeuser

Vol. 86/No. 42 - November 14, 2022
IAM District W24 strikers, supporters picket at Seattle headquarters of timber giant Weyerhaeuser Sept. 20. Strike by over 1,100 workers won advances in wages and benefits.

RAYMOND, Wash. — Over 1,100 members of International Association of Machinists District W24 struck Weyerhaeuser locations across Oregon and Washington six weeks ago in a fight against increased health care costs and for higher pay. Weyerhaeuser is one of the…


Nurses strike for pay parity, better conditions in Oakland

Vol. 86/No. 42 - November 14, 2022

OAKLAND, Calif.—Nurses working at Sutter’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center organized by the California Nurses Association conducted a weeklong strike here Oct. 24-28 demanding a substantial wage increase and better working conditions. Pickets told the Militant  they wanted parity with…


Mental health workers make gains in strike against Kaiser

Vol. 86/No. 42 - November 14, 2022

OAKLAND, Calif. — More than 2,000 mental health workers in Northern California organized by the National Union of Healthcare Workers settled their 10-week-long strike with Kaiser Permanente Oct. 21. The strike was hard fought. The union organized weekly rallies where…