Panel blown off Boeing airplane shows need to end profit system

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024
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

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024
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…



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

Vol. 88/No. 4 - January 29, 2024
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…



Flight attendant unions unite in call for pickets on February 13

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024
American Airlines flight attendants rally at Dallas-Fort Worth airport Sept. 5. More than 75,000 workers on four airlines are fighting for higher pay for all hours they work, livable schedules.

“Join us on Tuesday, February 13, for picketing at over 30 airports worldwide,” says the call posted online Jan. 3 by three unions representing nearly 100,000 flight attendants. “Stand in solidarity with us to demand that airline management stop the…


Soldiers’ relatives protest Putin’s war on Ukraine

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024
Wife of Russian soldier fighting in Ukraine protests outside government offices in Moscow Jan. 6. Her sign says, “Get the mobilized soldiers home! Down with conscription slavery!”

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war to conquer Ukraine and its people has failed to dent the determination of working people there to defend the country’s sovereignty. Resistance to the war and its consequences continues to rise inside Russia. Despite this,…


SWP campaign in Oakland joins protests against attacks on Israel

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024
Margaret Trowe, SWP candidate for U.S. Congress in California’s District 12, speaks against San Leandro City Council motion for an Israeli cease-fire, which would only strengthen Hamas.

SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — The Socialist Workers Party campaign joined other supporters of Israel’s right to exist as a refuge for Jews to speak out against Jew-hatred at City Council debates here and in Alameda Jan. 2. This author is…


Reactionary gov’t in Iran key to Mideast conflict

Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024
Tehran, March 8, 1979: 100,000 women, men protest attempt to impose compulsory head covering on women after overturn of U.S.-backed shah. Regime wasn’t able to impose hijab until 1983, as bourgeois clerical counterrevolution consolidated. Regime is trying to extend its reactionary influence across the region.

The reactionary bourgeois clerical regime in Tehran is driven to increase its regional power and influence by force of arms. Its leaders strive to extend beyond Iran’s borders the four-decade-long political counterrevolution that pushed back the workers, farmers, women and…


Defend Israel’s right to exist! Fight against Jew-hatred is union issue

Call for Israel ‘cease-fire’ gives support to Hamas
Vol. 88/No. 3 - January 22, 2024
Hundreds protested in St. Louis Dec. 10 in defense of Israel as refuge for Jews, against antisemitism. Reactionary support for Hamas massacre of Jews has spurred counterprotests.

U.S. officials say they’re focused on preventing a widening of the war between Israel and the Tehran-organized “axis of resistance,” which includes Hamas, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Tehran-backed militias in Syria and Iraq, and Houthi-based Islamists in Yemen. “I have been…