BNSF coal train derails in Colorado, kills truck driver

Vol. 87/No. 40 - October 30, 2023
BNSF coal train derails in Colorado, kills truck driver

On Oct. 15, 30 cars on a loaded Burlington Northern coal train passing near Pueblo, Colorado, derailed and brought a bridge crashing down onto Interstate Highway 25. It crushed a semitruck, killing the driver. This was the 177th derailment reported…


SWP in 1938: Open US doors to victims of Hitler’s Nazi terror!

Vol. 87/No. 40 - October 30, 2023
Members of Socialist Workers Party helped initiate picket at German Consulate in New York in November 1938 demanding Washington open its doors to Jewish and other victims of Nazi terror. Party resolution said road to end Jew-hatred was fight for workers power, socialism.

The deadly Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom against Jews in Israel highlighted the danger of Jew-hating violence worldwide as the crisis of capitalism grows. Below are excerpts from “Theses on the Jewish question” and “Open the doors to victims of Hitler’s…


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…


UAW expands strike at Big Three, 34,000 on picket lines

Vol. 87/No. 40 - October 30, 2023
UAW Local 862 members on strike at Ford Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville Oct. 14. “Our priority is to protect jobs and workers’ livelihoods,” Local President Todd Dunn told the Militant.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Workers at the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant here, members of United Auto Workers Local 862, walked off the job Oct. 11, bringing the number of UAW workers on strike against the Big Three to over 34,000. They…


Support Memphis bakery workers strike over wages, safety and respect

Vol. 87/No. 40 - October 30, 2023
Cedric Wilson, right, president of BCTGM Local 390G on strike at International Flavors and Fragrances in Memphis,Tennessee, speaks at Oct. 18 rally outside IFF headquarters in New York. “We have union members with cancer, people with kids, some are losing their homes. But they’re all still in the fight,” he said. “There’s no other way, you have to fight.”

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — On the picket line at the International Flavors and Fragrances plant Oct. 11, strikers Darold Brooks, a mechanic, and Thad Beckman, a lead man, told this Militant  worker-correspondent about the horrendous safety record of the bosses here.…