Let Cuba Play! Stop US rulers’ ban on visas for Cuban athletes

Vol. 90/No. 1 - January 12, 2026
Cuban baseball exhibition game in Havana, 1999. President Fidel Castro managed the team.

The U.S. government’s denial of visas for Cuban athletes leading to the 2028 Summer Olympics and Paralympic Games in Los Angeles is being challenged by the Let Cuba Play! campaign. As part of its economic and political war against Cuba,…


Workers face growing economic crisis as bosses go all-in for AI

Vol. 90/No. 1 - January 12, 2026
Speculators are putting massive amounts of capital into building huge AI data centers, consuming large amounts of power. So little housing for workers is built, and our electric bills soar.

“U.S. economy grows at fastest pace in two years,” the BBC headlined a year-end report Dec. 23. Forbes followed suit, with a Dec. 28 article, “Strong GDP And Rising Profits Set Up A Resilient US Economy for 2026.” President Donald…


Socialist Workers Party campaigns against Jew-hatred

Vol. 90/No. 1 - January 12, 2026

Since the Jew-hating massacre at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, Dec. 14, members of the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K. have stepped up their campaigning, explaining the stakes for the labor movement…


NZ march protests Jew-hating massacre in Australia

Vol. 90/No. 1 - January 12, 2026

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Four hundred people rallied and marched here Dec. 21 against the massacre one week earlier of Jews celebrating the first day of Hanukkah at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. Speakers condemned the rise in Jew-hatred and…


Statement by the Communist League in Australia

Vol. 89/No. 47 - December 29, 2025

December 16, 2025 The horrific shooting of Jews celebrating Hanukkah at Bondi Beach December 14, was a violent act of Jew-hatred which should be condemned by all working people, our unions, and supporters of democratic rights. Since the murderous pogrom…


Mass protests topple Bulgarian gov’t on eve of joining eurozone

Vol. 89/No. 47 - December 29, 2025
Rally against government budget proposals in Sofia, Bulgaria, Dec. 1. Signs read from left, “How many more lies?” “The future is not a business deal” and “Democracy is not a dictatorship.” Economic, social and political crisis led to weeks of large, angry protests.

The challenges confronting Bulgaria’s capitalist rulers increased following a wave of protests against budget proposals. Next month Bulgaria joins the bloc of countries using the euro currency, as its rulers try to attract foreign investment, with competition for markets and…


Kilmar Abrego García is out of prison: ‘My fight will continue’

Vol. 89/No. 47 - December 29, 2025
Kilmar Abrego García, speaking to the press the day after winning release from prison Dec. 11. Backed by his union, SMART, and many others, he is continuing to fight to win his freedom.

WASHINGTON — After 275 days in prison, Kilmar Abrego García, a 30-year-old construction apprentice and member of SMART Local 100, was released from immigration detention Dec. 11. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in Maryland ordered Kristi Noem, the Department of…


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…