Murderous catastrophe in Darfur as Islamist rebels slaughter thousands

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025
Thousands of people escape into refugee camp in Tawila, Sudan, Oct. 31. They were fleeing massacre by Rapid Support Forces, formerly Janjaweed militias, in el-Fasher in Darfur region.

As a two-and-a-half-year bloody civil war ravages the toilers in Sudan, the reactionary Rapid Support Forces seized el-Fasher, the largest city in the Darfur region, Oct. 26, unleashing a massacre against the indigenous black population. Two days later, RSF paramilitary…


Help SWP go over the top in Party-Building Fund

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025

As we enter the final week to raise $140,000 for the Socialist Workers Party-Building Fund, party branches report success in winning new contributors who are interested in supporting the SWP’s work. Marklyn Wilson, an SWP member from Atlanta, reports that…


ACLU joins fight to end Missouri ban on ‘Militant’

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025

In an important victory for freedom of speech and the press, Missouri prison authorities have overturned the ban on Militant issue no. 28, dated Aug. 11, at the South Central Correctional Center in Licking. It will be delivered to the…


US moves to deport Kilmar Abrego García to Africa

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025

WASHINGTON — The Donald Trump administration’s Department of Justice filed a new motion before Judge Paula Xinis in U.S. District Court in Maryland Nov. 7 seeking to have Kilmar Abrego García deported to Liberia, thousands of miles from his wife…


Rallies across Australia condemn Jew-hating attacks

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025

SYDNEY — Hundreds turned out at rallies organized by “Never Again Is Now” in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth Oct. 26 to protest Jew-hatred, and simultaneous actions were held in another 12 cities and towns. Two weeks earlier, 8,000 members of…



25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025

November 20, 2000 St. Paul, Minnesota — Meat packers at two slaughterhouses owned by Rosen’s Diversified Inc. are organizing to resist an antiunion offensive by the bosses. The company has stepped up its campaign of intimidation and pressure against leaders…


Iran: Oil, power workers protest contract labor system

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025
Iran: Oil, power workers protest contract labor system

More than 1,000 Iranian oil workers and their family members, from all across the country especially the southern oil fields, protested outside the president’s offices in Tehran Nov. 1. They were joined by electrical workers at power plants who face…


Attacks on Arab bus drivers shows challenges in Israel

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025

A spike in violence against bus drivers in Jerusalem sheds light on the challenges and the opportunities to overcome divisions in the working class and to strengthen the unions in Israel. There are several bus lines serving the Jerusalem area…


Stalin’s ‘Popular Front’ in France blocked workers taking power

Vol. 89/No. 42 - November 24, 2025
Workers occupy Renault auto plant in France, May 1936, part of wave of sit-down strikes that posed possibility for fight by workers to take power. Communist, Socialist parties in alliance with liberal capitalists in Popular Front government blocked the revolutionary upsurge.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November is The Crisis of the French Section (1935-36) by Leon Trotsky. Growing class battles across Europe, from rising proletarian struggles in France to the Spanish Revolution, posed the need for workers…