Fidel Castro: ‘Without doubt, Israel has right to exist’

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023
“Nothing compares to the Holocaust,” Fidel Castro told Jeffrey Goldberg in 2010 interview. Castro, left, with Goldberg, right, and Jewish community leader Adela Dworin in Havana, August 2010.

Since the pogrom by Hamas and its allies, Stalinists and middle-class radicals have been organizing actions under the slogan, “From the river to the sea, Palestine must be free” — a call for the destruction of Israel and slaughter of…


Biggest massacre of Jews since the Nazi Holocaust

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023
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…


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

Vol. 87/No. 39 - October 23, 2023
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…


Protest Abbas’ defense of the Holocaust

Vol. 87/No. 35 - September 25, 2023

Statement by Róger Calero, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City Council, Sept. 13. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Aug. 24 statement defending the Holocaust should be condemned by the labor movement and all those opposed to exploitation and…


What is road forward in the Middle East?

Vol. 87/No. 28 - July 31, 2023

The spread of terrorist attacks against Jews in Israel and the West Bank by supporters of Hamas and Islamic Jihad — backed by the bourgeois-clerical regime in Iran — along with thuggish actions by rightists among Israeli settlers against Palestinians…


Gov’t court ‘reform’ paused after protests paralyze Israel

Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put his government’s push for judicial “reform” on hold March 27 in the face of growing opposition, including a national strike at the airport, stock exchange and hospitals called by the Histadrut labor federation, paralyzing…


Home nursery workers in Jerusalem demand pay hike

Vol. 86/No. 36 - October 3, 2022
Home nursery workers strike for higher pay, better working conditions in Jerusalem Sept. 1.

Home nursery workers demonstrated in Jerusalem Sept. 1, part of a one-day strike demanding higher pay and better work conditions. The action was organized by the National Union of Day Care Workers, which has some 3,000 members — predominantly Jewish…


Islamist groups launch terror attacks against Jews in Israel

Vol. 86/No. 15 - April 18, 2022
Funeral of Menachem Yehezkel March 23 in Beersheba, Israel. He was one of 11 people killed in terrorist attacks in Israel last month carried out by reactionary Islamist forces.

Eleven people were killed in three terrorist attacks inside Israel March 22-29, as reactionary Islamist forces sought to inspire a wave of anti-Jewish violence, widening divisions between Jews and Arabs and undermining increased diplomatic and economic ties between Israel and…


Palestinians, Israelis unite against settler attack on West Bank

Vol. 86/No. 7 - February 21, 2022

Over a dozen masked unsanctioned settlers in the West Bank attacked a group of Palestinian farmers and their supporters from Israel Jan. 21 as they were planting trees by the village of Burin, south of Nablus. The attackers used clubs…