SWP forum: ‘There is no peace in Gaza’

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025
Amin al-Husseini, grand mufti of Jerusalem, with Adolf Hitler in Berlin, November 1941, discussing collaboration in the Holocaust. Al-Husseini organized pogroms in British-ruled Palestine.

SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — “There is no peace in Gaza today,” Socialist Workers Party National Committee member Norton Sandler told a well-attended Militant Labor Forum here Oct. 17. Sandler is the party’s candidate for governor of California. “The Militant,” he…



Houston hotel workers win raises, limits on workload, end strike

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025
Members of UNITE HERE Local 23 celebrate on Oct. 10 after making gains in 40-day strike against Hilton-Americas Houston bosses. Their strike was the first ever hotel strike in Texas.

FORT WORTH, Texas — After a 40-day strike against Hilton Americas-Houston, members of UNITE HERE Local 23 announced Oct. 10 they had won a $20 hourly minimum wage for housekeepers, laundry attendants and stewards, and increases to $22 by the…



Georgia Teamsters win new contract at Republic Services

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025

CUMMING, Georgia — After 100 days on strike against the giant national waste hauling company Republic Services, some 30 Teamsters Local 728 members finally returned to work Oct. 16 after winning a new contract. They were the last group of…


‘Militant’ battles bans by prisons in Missouri, Kansas

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025

The Militant is fighting to reverse the banning of issues of the paper by the Lansing state prison in Kansas and of issue no. 28 by the Missouri Department of Corrections. What’s involved is a clear violation of prisoners’ constitutional…


US rulers step up war threats on Venezuela gov’t, toilers

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025
Helicopters on USS Iwo Jima in Caribbean Sept. 23. U.S. armada off Venezuela has blown up several boats, part of Washington’s drive to topple the government of Nicolás Maduro.

The Donald Trump administration is sharply escalating its threats against the government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. The combined military, political and economic pressure is also aimed at sending a message to other governments in Latin America and the Caribbean…


Mandela granddaughters in Israel: ‘People killed for being Jewish’

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025
Nelson Mandela’s granddaughters Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela (center) and Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway at aid site in Gaza during visit to Israel. “Seeing how families were murdered for simply being Jewish will stay with us forever,” Dlamini-Manaway said.

They were “glued to the television” Oct. 13 when Hamas released the hostages, Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway and Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela told the South African Jewish Report. Both are granddaughters of Nelson Mandela, the central leader of the fight that brought down apartheid…


British Columbia gov’t workers expand strike to almost 25,000

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — More than 1,600 members of the Professional Employees Association across the province have now joined striking BC Government Employees’ Union members on the picket line Oct. 16, bringing the total number of strikers to almost 25,000.…