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…


Putin steps up assault on Ukraine as US gov’t presses Kyiv to give in

Vol. 89/No. 46 - December 22, 2025
Ukrainian students enter an underground school on first day of fall term in Kharkiv Sept. 1. Despite constant bombing by Moscow, Ukrainian working people find ways to carry life on.

Since 2022 determined Ukrainian working people have resisted Moscow’s invasion and drive to seize all of their country. Today the conflict has become a bloody war of attrition. With complete disregard for the lives and limbs of Russian soldiers, President…


Tunisia union calls strike against gov’t crackdown

Vol. 89/No. 46 - December 22, 2025
Unionists march past UGTT headquarters in Tunis Dec. 4 protesting repression by Tunisian President Kais Saied.

The Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT) has called a nationwide general strike Jan. 21 against the government of Tunisian President Kais Saied to protest his crackdown and arrests of political opponents, restrictions on basic rights, and to demand wage raises…


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…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 46 - December 22, 2025

December 18, 2000 The assault on working people by the U.S. government over the past two decades has hit working-class women particularly hard. From the federal legislation that ended Aid to Families with Dependent Children in 1996, working women and…