A class-struggle program for workers today

Vol. 89/No. 47 - December 29, 2025

As the capitalist economic and social crisis deepens, the working class is being hammered by high prices for necessities, including groceries, energy, rent, health care and more, and by increasing difficulties in getting and keeping a decent job. This year…


SWP builds actions against attacks on Jews, promotes workers power

Vol. 89/No. 47 - December 29, 2025
Deborah Liatos brings solidarity from SWP to Hanukkah celebration of over 200 in Culver City, California, Dec. 14. SWP mobilized across the country to build actions against Jew-hatred.

Members of the Socialist Workers Party and of the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K. are responding to the horrific Jew-hating massacre at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, Dec. 14. Two Islamist thugs shot dead 15 people and…


Why Israel became inevitable as a refuge for the Jews

Vol. 89/No. 47 - December 29, 2025

Below are excerpts from the first chapter by Dave Prince in The Fight Against Jew-Hatred and Pogroms in the Imperialist Epoch: Stakes for the International Working Class. Copyright © 2024 by Pathfinder Press. Reprinted by permission.  In the years leading…


Spreading capitalist crises, rivalries driving threat of a new world war

Vol. 89/No. 47 - December 29, 2025

Working people around the world face more wars than at any time in recent decades, while the world’s capitalist rulers engage in an escalating arms race and seek new alliances. Washington’s efforts to reinforce its waning global domination are at…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 47 - December 29, 2025

December 25, 2000 Meat packers and other unionists should join with the United Food and Commercial Workers union in protesting the Dec. 5 raid at Nebraska Beef by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, aided by Omaha police and Nebraska State…


Ukrainians insist on defending their nat’l sovereignty

Vol. 89/No. 47 - December 29, 2025

As the fourth anniversary of Moscow’s invasion aimed at conquering Ukraine nears, Russian President Vladimir Putin aims to break the resolve of working people there to defend their country’s sovereignty. His problem is his army is taking heavy losses with…


Rezayi family demands justice in cop shooting of their son

Vol. 89/No. 47 - December 29, 2025

MONTREAL — Three months after 15-year-old high school student Nooran Rezayi was gunned down  by a Longueuil cop, no criminal charges have been laid and the name of the cop put on administrative leave has still not been revealed. Rezayi’s…


Chinese overseas in a changing world is theme of ISSCO Malaysia event

Vol. 89/No. 47 - December 29, 2025
International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas conference Nov. 4-6 at Malaya University. Some 500 people from 27 countries participated in Kuala Lumpur conference, ISSCO’s largest ever.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — “Chinese Overseas in a Changing World: Global Networks, Local Realities” was the theme of the 12th International Conference of ISSCO, the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas, that took place Nov. 4-6 at the…


Panel discusses how Cuba uprooted discrimination against Chinese

Vol. 89/No. 47 - December 29, 2025
Prior to 1959 revolution, Playa de Marianao, above, had been a “whites only” preserve for Havana’s wealthy families. Fidel Castro led fight against all forms of discrimination, including for Chinese Cubans, as socialist revolution advanced interests of workers, farmers.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — “The unique history of Chinese in Cuba” was the title of a presentation at the 12th International Conference of ISSCO given by Mary-Alice Waters, president of Pathfinder Press and editor of Our History Is Still Being…


Unions must take on Washington’s war on workers without papers

Vol. 89/No. 46 - December 22, 2025

Since taking office, President Donald Trump’s administration has launched a far-reaching effort to deport hundreds of thousands of workers without papers, posing a serious challenge to the labor movement. Trump slanders immigrant workers, saying millions are criminals or worse, and…