SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY STATEMENT

Fight to win workers power and socialism to end Jew-hatred

At an Oct. 10 rally in Miami to stand in solidarity with the Jews of Israel after the Nazi-style pogrom carried out by Hamas and its allies, Rachele Fruit, the 2024 Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from Florida,…

Condemn Jew-hating pogrom! Defend Israel’s right to exist!

Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, speaks to press at Oct. 10 event at Miami’s Holocaust Memorial to condemn Hamas pogrom in Israel. SWP is part of decadeslong continuity of communist movement in fight against Jew-hatred, she said.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — The Holocaust Memorial here was the site of an Oct. 10 rally of some 3,000 in solidarity with the Jews of Israel after the Nazi-style pogrom three days earlier. “We distributed flyers for the next Militant…

Biggest massacre of Jews since the Nazi Holocaust

Cars shot up, blocked as Jewish participants in all-night music festival near Gaza tried to flee Hamas’ murderous attacks Oct. 7. Killing or kidnapping Jews was Hamas’ main objective.

The murderous pogrom Oct. 7 by Hamas and its allies is a stark warning to all working people that Jew-hating slaughter and demagogy are a permanent reality of the world imperialist order. These heinous acts and the bourgeois leaderships that…

UAW members strike is a fight for the entire working class

Chanting, “No deal? No wheels!” members of United Auto Workers Local 551 rallied at their union hall Oct. 7 in Chicago. The 4,600 workers at Ford there went on strike Sept. 29, bringing the total to 25,000 workers on strike against the Big Three auto companies in 21 states.

CHICAGO — Spirited chants of “UAW! UAW! UAW!” and “No deal? No wheels!” filled United Auto Workers Local 551’s Ford workers’ union hall here Oct. 7. Hundreds rallied to hear UAW President Shawn Fain and other speakers, part of the…

SWP tells truth about Hamas war on Jews, builds US labor struggles

Lisa Potash, SWP candidate for U.S. Congress from Georgia, told Militant Labor Forum in Atlanta Oct. 8 that middle-class left falsely portrays Hamas as a national liberation organization. In fact it is “a reactionary Islamist puppet of Tehran” that rules Palestinians in Gaza by thuggery.

The Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Canada, Australia and the U.K. are campaigning to explain why Israel must be defended as a refuge for Jews and why the pogroms Hamas launched on Israeli citizens must be exposed and…

‘Protest US rulers’ economic war on the Cuban people’

MIAMI — Thirty-five people joined a Miami Caravan action here Oct. 1, setting up a lively and highly visible vigil in the pouring rain at the Miami International Airport to demand an end to Washington’s embargo against Cuba and removal…

Kaiser hospital workers demand: ‘Hire more staff! Raise our pay!’

LOS ANGELES — Over 75,000 Kaiser hospital workers carried out a three-day strike Oct. 4-6 in California, Oregon, Washington and Colorado. Kaiser workers in Virginia and the District of Columbia went out for one day. The central issues are the…

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Iran oil workers: ‘Our lives don’t matter to bosses’

Contract oil workers protest in Abadan, Iran, in early October, demanding higher pay.

Oil refinery workers in five provinces of Iran and on five oil-drilling platforms in the Persian Gulf are protesting over wages, pensions and safety conditions. The protests include both “permanent” refinery and drilling-platform workers — who are among the better-paid…

Forging a proletarian party in the class struggle today

Socialist Workers Party uses Marxist program and party’s experiences to set course

American Airlines flight attendants protest at Dallas-Fort Worth airport Sept. 5, 2023. There has been a renewal of fights and solidarity activity by workers, unionists in U.S.

“Every class struggle is a political struggle.” With that statement Jack Barnes, national secretary of…

The fight against Jew-hatred and pogroms in the imperialist epoch

Stakes for the international working class

Pogroms, yesterday and today. Top, Hamas parades Jewish man murdered by death squad Oct. 7 past cheering supporters in Gaza City. Massacre in southern Israel was deadliest single attack on Jews since Hitler’s “Final Solution.” Bottom, using what Bolshevik leader V.I. Lenin called “the most savage and furious methods,” tsarist-inspired pogromists in 1906 murdered 80 Jews in Belostok, in what is now Poland. Photo shows Jewish family after assault.

Below is the opening chapter by Socialist Workers Party leader Dave Prince of the new book, The Fight Against…

Defend Israel’s right to exist as refuge for Jews!
Condemn Jew-hating pogrom!

The record of the 'Militant' and the Socialist Workers Party

SWP campaign joined opponents of Jew-hatred in rally at University of California in Berkeley March 11 in defense of free speech, against shutdown of Jewish student meeting there Feb. 26.

Click on the links below to read news, opinion and background historical coverage of the events in Israel…

Opposing US ruling-class assaults on freedoms protected by the Constitution

Left, President Joseph Biden, speaking May 31 at the White House, called Donald Trump supporters “semi-fascists” and “MAGA Republicans” to justify targeting his constitutional rights. Trump was found guilty May 30 in politically concocted trial violating his Sixth Amendment right “to know the nature of the charges” and to an impartial jury. Yet Biden urged no one to criticize “our justice system.” Right, Florida, August 2022. Armed raid by Justice Department on Trump home in Mar-a-Lago, trampling protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. Under bourgeois regimes, “all suppression of political rights and freedom, no matter whom they’re directed against at the start, in the end inevitably bear down upon the working class,” communist leader Leon Trotsky said in 1939.

“Opposing US rulers’ assaults on freedoms protected by the Constitution and their use of the political…

‘A genuine revolution means leading the millions’

Class struggle in the US today, the Cuban Revolution and building a proletarian party

April 25 book presentation in Havana at headquarters of Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples. Inset, from left, Mary-Alice Waters; ICAP leader Noemí Rabaza, who chaired and spoke. In Cuba, Rabaza said, the government represents workers’ class interests not those of the capitalists. “What Noemí says is important,” Waters noted in discussion period. Cuba’s socialist revolution is a beacon worldwide and sets the example for working people in the U.S., too. “Alone we’ll be defeated. Fighting together, we can win,” Waters ended.

The following are the remarks by Mary-Alice Waters at an April 25 presentation in Havana of the book…

‘Cuban Revolution: a challenge to US imperialism’

Cuban representative speaks on US economic war, campaign of lies against socialist revolution

BY MARTÍN KOPPEL, MARY-ALICE WATERS, AND RÓGER CALERO NEW YORK — Carlos Fernández de Cossío, head of…

Cuba and Chernobyl

This Cuban documentary produced in 2006 tells the story of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine and Cuba’s exemplary internationalist medical program that treated more than 25,000 victims.