DC rally demands action against rise in black lung

Vol. 89/No. 38 - October 27, 2025
DC rally demands action against rise in black lung

WASHINGTON — Some 100 members of the National Black Lung Association — coal miners, wives, widows and other family members and friends — rallied here Oct. 14, along with members of the United Mine Workers of America. They’re demanding the…


SWP candidates in Minneapolis protest assault on synagogue

Vol. 89/No. 38 - October 27, 2025

MINNEAPOLIS — “The Socialist Workers Party calls on all working people and our unions to protest the Jew-hating attack on Temple Israel in Minneapolis,” Kevin Dwire, the SWP candidate for mayor, and Edwin Fruit, the party’s candidate for Minneapolis City…


Defend Israel’s right to exist as refuge from new Holocaust

Defend Palestinians in Gaza from Hamas thugs
Vol. 89/No. 38 - October 27, 2025
Hamas posted videos of its executions of Palestinians in Gaza it accused of being “collaborators” of Israel. Hamas knows it is widely hated by Palestinians in Gaza and is trying to intimidate people there to prevent them from challenging its moves to reestablish its dictatorial rule.

Trump says that Hamas thugs patrolling streets of Gaza is OK The release of the 20 remaining living hostages by Hamas — starved, tortured and brutalized for 738 days after the Jew-hating group kidnapped them during the Oct. 7, 2023,…


Protesters defy attacks by pro-Moscow gov’t in Georgia

Vol. 89/No. 38 - October 27, 2025

Tens of thousands of protesters filled the streets of Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital, Oct. 4 after the Georgian Dream government claimed victory in municipal elections held after months of attacks on almost daily demonstrations, raids on independent media and the jailing…


There is no peace! For Israel’s decisive defeat of Hamas!

Vol. 89/No. 38 - October 27, 2025

There is no “peace” in Gaza today, nor did Washington ever mean for there to be. The goal of the U.S. imperialist rulers is a “Pax Americana,” to impose their political, economic and military domination over the region — drawing…


Hundreds in Russia protest Putin’s Ukraine war, regime

Vol. 89/No. 38 - October 27, 2025
Hundreds in Russia protest Putin’s Ukraine war, regime

Defying police censorship and the threat of repression, hundreds of young Russians gathered in St. Petersburg’s Kazanskaya Square Oct. 14 to sing an outlawed song calling for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be overthrown. They joined street musicians on Nevsky…


New Syria gov’t targets Kurds, signals spread of wider conflict

Vol. 89/No. 38 - October 27, 2025

Fighting broke out Oct. 6 between Syria’s new government and Kurdish forces, which for years have controlled an autonomous region carved out in the struggle for their national rights in the oil-rich northeast of the country. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic…


How Minneapolis Teamsters, SWP fought Roosevelt’s drive to war

Vol. 89/No. 38 - October 27, 2025
From left, Socialist Appeal, Oct. 16, 1937, points to danger to working class of Washington’s drive to join coming world war over markets and power; Jan. 8, 1938, issue reports founding of Socialist Workers Party; July 26, 1941, Militant explains government decision to frame-up SWP and Teamsters leaders to silence their leadership of anti-war opposition in labor movement.

Teamster Bureaucracy by Farrell Dobbs is one of the Books of the Month for October. This is the last of his four volumes on the Teamsters. It covers the union’s campaign to lead working-class resistance to the bosses’ attacks and…



US military buildup in Latin America, Caribbean targets conflict with Beijing

Vol. 89/No. 37 - October 20, 2025
Deep-water port at Chancay, Peru, is majority-owned by China shipping company COSCO. Linked by rail to Brazil, it will cut shipping times for Latin America’s agricultural and mineral exports to China by a third. U.S. rulers are alarmed at Beijing’s challenge in their “backyard.”

Under both the current Republican and former Democratic administration, the U.S. capitalist rulers have sharply stepped up their economic and military moves against Venezuela, and in Latin America more broadly, seeking to strengthen Washington’s alliances in the fierce competition they’re…