Denounce Jew-hatred, a threat to all workers

Vol. 83/No. 19 - May 13, 2019

The following is from a statement released by Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Los Angeles City Council District 12, at an April 29 vigil in Poway, California, where thousands gathered to respond to the deadly attack on the…


Democrats’ fractures widen in cover-up of anti-Semitic remarks

Vol. 83/No. 12 - March 25, 2019
Overflow crowd at Pittsburgh vigil Oct. 27, 2018, after murder of 11 Jews at synagogue there. Inset, Rabbi Alexander Davis speaks at rally at Dar Al Farooq Islamic Center, Bloomington, Minnesota, Aug. 8, 2017, following bombing of mosque. Many Somali workers in that area say they recall the support they got from Jews there and oppose Rep. Ilhan Omar’s recent anti-Semitic slanders.

A series of anti-Semitic remarks made by new Congresswoman Ilhan Omar have widened rifts in the Democratic Party and among liberals. Some have criticized her; others made excuses for her, saying she didn’t understand what she was saying; and some,…


Jew-hatred incited by capitalist rulers in times of crisis

Vol. 83/No. 5 - February 4, 2019
Fleeing Nazi terror, over 900 Jewish refugees on ship St. Louis in 1939. Imperialist “democratic” governments in Washington and Ottawa refused asylum, forcing refugees back to Europe.

The excerpt below is from chapter one of   The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation by Abram Leon, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. Leon was won to Marxism from Zionism by supporters of Leon Trotsky. He led…


Are acts of Jew-hatred on the rise in the US today?

Vol. 82/No. 44 - November 26, 2018
When fascist groups called a rally at Madison Square Garden in 1939, 50,000 working people came out in New York for a countermobilization called by the Socialist Workers Party.

The day after the murder of 11 Jews at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh by anti-Semite Robert Bowers Oct. 27, Osborne Hart, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania, went there to condemn the killings.…


Join in denouncing Jew-hatred, a deadly threat to working class

Vol. 82/No. 42 - November 12, 2018
Overflow crowd at Pittsburgh vigil called by students at Taylor Allderdice High School Oct. 27.

This statement by Osborne Hart, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania, was released in Pittsburgh Oct. 28. The Socialist Workers Party condemns the anti-Semitic assault and killing of 11 Jews at the Tree of Life synagogue in…


Tens of thousands protest anti-Semitic assault, killings

Vol. 82/No. 42 - November 12, 2018

PITTSBURGH — Tens of thousands of people coast to coast — and around the world — attended vigils and other gatherings to protest the Oct. 27 murder of 11 Jews by ultra-rightist Robert Bowers at the Tree of Life synagogue…


Oppose the Jew-hatred of UK Labour Party leaders

Vol. 82/No. 41 - November 5, 2018
Oppose the Jew-hatred of UK Labour Party leaders

MANCHESTER, England — “Why is anti-Semitism such a big issue?” Manchester factory worker Adam Herring asked his co-worker, Communist League member Pete Clifford. His question about Jew-hatred in the leadership of the Labour Party is one that comes up often…


Debate in UK deepens over Jew-hatred in Labour Party

Vol. 82/No. 31 - August 20, 2018

LONDON — “Jewish Trump fanatics” are responsible for a raft of made-up stories about Labour Party anti-Semitism, national executive member Peter Willsman charged at the committee’s meeting July 17. This explosion of Jew-hatred, recorded and publicly released, is part of…


Jewish question is at the heart of clashes across the Middle East

Vol. 82/No. 21 - May 28, 2018

Tel Aviv’s military carried out its biggest-ever airstrikes on Iranian forces in Syria May 10, where Iran’s capitalist rulers have been reinforcing their Revolutionary Guard forces, allied Shiite militias and weapons systems that threaten Israel. The strike took place as…


Protests answer article pushing Jew-hatred in Puerto Rico

Vol. 82/No. 5 - February 5, 2018

After a barrage of criticism, El Nuevo Día,Puerto Rico’s largest circulation daily, removed from its website the Jan. 8 anti-Semitic article by columnist Wilda Rodríguez titled “What Does the ‘Jew’ Want With the Colony.” In the column Rodríguez repeated the…