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Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, SWP fund (week 3)

US rulers’ raids, deportations aim to divide workers, weaken unions

The surge in immigration raids under President Donald Trump’s administration is aimed at deepening divisions between workers in the U.S. with papers and those without and to intensify the exploitation of all. Millions of undocumented workers have been forced into…

‘Militant’ takes on Kansas prison ban

Authorities at the Lansing Correctional Facility, a state prison in Kansas, recently began barring Militant subscribers there from getting their paper. The Militant has launched a fight to overturn this violation of the constitutional right of workers behind bars to…

Mass protests lead to fall of government in Madagascar

MONTREAL — “Since Sept. 25 young people and entire families have been paying the price for their courage — courage to demand water, electricity and freedom,” Henintsoa Ramangalahy told a march of 300 here Oct. 11. “We say to our…

Kaiser hospital workers strike for wage raise, hiring more staff

LOS ANGELES — Over 40,000 nurses and other health care workers at Kaiser Permanente hospitals went on strike for five days starting Oct. 14. “Kaiser pushed us to the end,” Tina Chin, a physician assistant in neurosurgery, told the Militant…

Books by SWP leaders, ‘Militant’ sell well at one-day Georgia festival

DECATUR, Ga. — “This is the best booth here!” more than one participant at the Oct. 4 Decatur Book Festival told volunteers staffing the Pathfinder Books booth from Atlanta. The one-day event in this Atlanta suburb was attended by thousands…

Defeat of Hamas crucial to prevent a new Holocaust

Trump’s ‘peace’ plan aims to push US imperialist interests

Two years after the worst pogrom against Jews since the Nazi Holocaust during World War II, the defeat of Hamas remains key to preventing it from carrying out a new Holocaust today. Since President Donald Trump announced his 20-point “peace”…

Thousands mark Oct. 7 pogrom, in US, around the world

Thousands gathered across the U.S., in Israel and around the world Oct. 7 to mark the second anniversary of the deadly pogrom carried out by Tehran-backed Hamas and to demand the release of all the remaining hostages. Hamas thugs murdered…

Striking British Columbia public service workers win support

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Public service workers here represented by the B.C. General Employees’ Union are expanding their strike over wages and conditions, and winning widespread labor support. Over 5,000 strikers and their supporters marched and rallied in Victoria Oct. 6…

‘Authenticity and future of our revolution depend on women’

Women’s Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. Sankara was the central leader of the popular, democratic revolution in Burkina Faso. He had been won to Marxism before…