Protest hits ICE, Ambridge, Pa., cops immigration raids

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025

AMBRIDGE, Pa. — More than 50 people gathered here Aug. 1 to protest a combined local police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation the night before, which led to the arrest of at least 10 people. The police and county…


SWP at Seattle debate: ‘Cuban Revolution is example for today’

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025
Jacob Perasso, SWP mayoral candidate, speaks at Seattle candidates’ forum at Filipino Community Center July 30. “Workers need to take power into our own hands,” he said.

SEATTLE — The Socialist Workers Party candidates here, Rebecca Williamson for King County Executive and Jacob Perasso for mayor, participated in a candidates’ forum at the Filipino Community Center July 30 organized by the King County International Airport Community Coalition.…


Back Teamsters on strike at Republic Services!

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025

Six weeks into their strike, over 400 sanitation workers at Republic Services in Massachusetts, Illinois and Georgia are fighting for better wages and lower health care costs. The strikers, members of the Teamsters, face a bosses’ strikebreaking operation and need…


New attacks on synagogues show real face of Jew-hatred

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025
Jew-hating death threat on door of Congregation Emanu-El, Victoria, British Columbia, Aug. 2.

Attacks on synagogues in Australia, Canada and elsewhere over recent weeks highlight the stakes in the fight to defend Israel as a refuge for Jews, to advance the working-class fight against Jew-hatred and pogroms. In British Columbia, Canada, someone scrawled…


Israeli gov’t approves offensive for defeat of Hamas

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025

After a heated 10-hour debate Aug. 8, the Israeli government approved a new offensive aimed at decisively defeating Hamas and extending Israeli military control over all of Gaza. The Security Cabinet voted to instruct the Israeli army to take over…


‘Fight for a workers gov’t to prevent another world war’

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025
Philippe Tessier, Communist League candidate for mayor of Saint Leonard, speaks in Montreal Aug. 9, with, from left, Kevin Dwire, SWP Minneapolis mayoral candidate; Katy LeRougetel, CL candidate for mayor of Montreal; Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for New Jersey governor.

MONTREAL — Campaigning together here Aug. 8-9 were Katy LeRougetel, Communist League candidate for mayor of Montreal; Philippe Tessier, CL candidate for mayor of Saint Leonard; Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New Jersey; and Kevin Dwire,…


Teamsters Airgas strike enters week seven

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025

VALLEY VIEW, Ohio — Seven weeks into their strike against Airgas, Teamsters members here who fill and haul gas tanks are determined to win contracts with wage increases and improved health care. The Teamsters are on strike in Ohio, New…


Ukraine resists Moscow’s war, Putin seeks help from Trump

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025
Kateryna Troian, a legendary drone operator with over 1,000 successful strikes, was known by her call sign, “Meow.” She was killed by artillery fire near Pokrovsk, in eastern Ukraine, June 8.

In an effort to impose a settlement leading to the end of Moscow’s war in Ukraine, President Donald Trump announced that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin would meet in Alaska Aug. 15. While they talk, working people in Ukraine…


Letters

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025

More support for the SWP I am writing from Memphis, Tennessee, with a fun anecdote. I was talking with a new friend and learned he and his family are from Grenada. His father has some memorabilia from the revolution, including…


Defend Israel’s battle to prevent a new Holocaust!

Defeat of Hamas is a decisive question!
Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025

It’s in the interests of all workers and the oppressed in the U.S. and worldwide to see the fight to dismantle Hamas carried through to the end. Another Holocaust was the stated aim of Hamas when it carried out its…