Protest at U.N. World Court in The Hague Jan. 11 as South African rulers’ case charging Israel with ”genocide” opened. Protesters said case is political and legal cover for Hamas’ Oct. 7 pogrom against Jews in Israel, which the Tehran-backed outfit says it will do “again and again.”

Defend right of Israel to exist as a refuge for Jews

Fight to destroy Hamas is in interests of all workers

Tens of thousands joined protests around the world over the Jan. 12 weekend to demand Hamas release all the remaining hostages the Tehran-backed group kidnapped as part of its murderous pogrom in Israel Oct. 7. The protests in London, Paris,…

Prosecution of Israel in the World Court is a frame-up

Jews deported by train from Hungary arrive at Auschwitz death camp in Poland in 1944. In the Holocaust, Nazi capitalist rulers in Germany and their allies killed 6 million Jews, a systematic, genocidal state-sponsored mass murder, the scope of which no other people have ever faced.

The South African government is seeking to speak for all those who oppose the existence of Israel. It went before the United Nation’s World Court Jan. 11 to charge Israel with committing genocide against the Palestinian people. The accusation stands…

Panel blown off Boeing airplane shows need to end profit system

Door-size panel tore off Alaska Airlines plane Jan. 5, forcing emergency landing in Portland, Oregon. Threat to passengers, crews is a result of the bosses’ insatiable drive for profits.

The near disaster when a door-sized panel on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 jet ripped off in midflight Jan. 5 exposes once again how the bosses’ drive for profits above all else comes at the expense of safety…

As immigration spikes, workers look to unify the working class

Farmworkers harvesting onions near Alamo, Texas. The SWP calls for amnesty for all workers living in the U.S. regardless of where they come from. Overcoming the divisions between immigrant and native-born workers is essential to beating back attacks by the bosses.

FORT WORTH, Texas — Over 300,000 immigrants crossed the southwest border of the U.S. last month, the highest number ever recorded. In one week in December some 12,000 migrants crossed the Texas border with Mexico at Eagle Pass. Last…

Saying ‘Trump is a fascist,’ Democrats deepen attacks on constitutional rights

Joseph Biden, above, and his Democratic Party are leading attack on constitutional freedoms.

Attempts to prevent Donald Trump from winning the Republican nomination for president came apart with his win in the Iowa caucuses Jan. 15 by a big margin. Liberals cannot be sure Trump will lose the 2024 race to an unpopular…

Join SWP in fight against Jew-hatred, to advance working-class struggles

Lea Sherman, right, SWP candidate for U.S. Congress from New Jersey, campaigns at Jan. 12 “Bring Them Home” action at U.N. to demand return of hostages seized by Hamas. Sponsored by Jewish organizations, it drew over 2,500 people, including high school student contingents.

Socialist Workers Party members in Washington, D.C., called on area unions to condemn a Jew-hating attack on holiday displays in the Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore Dec. 23. Lights were torn from the front fence of Rabbi Moshe Moskowitz’s house. He…

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Features

Fidel Castro: ‘Never had such a profound change taken place’

Fidel Castro’s Freedom Caravan enters Havana, Cuba, Jan. 8, 1959. “A sea of people,” he said, met rebel fighters after popular insurrection, general strike sealed victory in revolutionary war.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January is In Defense of Socialism: Four Speeches on the 30th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution by Fidel Castro, its central leader. The triumph of the Cuban people on Jan. 1, 1959,…

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.