Working people in Iran oppose crackdown on rights, attacks on Israel

Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024
Striking truck drivers protest at Merhan Iran-Iraq border crossing May 6, part of nationwide actions. Banner says, “Job security is equal to life security.” Workers in Iran pay the price for bourgeois clerical regime’s foreign military adventures.

While the reactionary bourgeois-clerical regime in Iran has tried to mount large demonstrations in solidarity with Hamas since its Oct. 7 pogrom against Jews in Israel — a massacre planned and carried out in close collaboration with Tehran — turnout…


Fighting Jew-hatred: continuity of the Socialist Workers Party

Vol. 88/No. 19 - May 13, 2024
Socialist Workers Party called November 1938 protest in New York demanding Washington open entry to the U.S. to Jewish refugees. Action was called after Kristallnacht, when Nazi storm troopers rounded up 30,000 Jews, destroyed Jewish businesses, synagogues in Germany.

The following excerpt is from Chapter 5 of The Fight Against Jew-Hatred and Pogroms in the Imperialist Epoch: Stakes for the International Working Class. The book describes the continuity of the movement in the fight against Jew-hatred going back more…



Cuba fights brutal effects of US rulers’ economic war

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024

For 65 years the U.S. government has carried out a far-reaching economic, trade and financial war against Cuba. This brutal policy has been continued by every one of the 13 Democratic and Republican administrations since 1959. The U.S. rulers’ stated…



Hamas’ goal is ‘Final Solution,’ carried out to the end

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024

The mounting pressure by the Joseph Biden administration and other imperialist powers to impose a long-term cease-fire on Israel, putting on ice its battle to destroy the military capacity of Hamas, ignores the avowed intentions of this reactionary group —…


Athens meeting celebrates book on Cuba’s socialist revolution

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024
Aramis Fuente Hernández, Cuba’s ambassador to Greece, speaks at launch of Greek edition of Aldabonazo by Cuban revolutionary Armando Hart. Translator Sappho Diamanti on right.

ATHENS, Greece — Some 40 people gathered here Feb. 24 to celebrate the Jan. 1 anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and for the launch of the newly published Greek edition of Aldabonazo, Inside the Cuban Revolutionary Underground 1952-58 by Armando…


10,000 rally in Australia, protest jump in Jew-hatred since Oct. 7

Vol. 88/No. 9 - March 4, 2024

SYDNEY — A rally to condemn rising Jew-hatred drew 10,000 people here Feb. 18. Since Hamas’ pogrom Oct. 7, killing 1,200 Jews and others who lived and worked with them, and wounding thousands more, there has been a sharp increase…


Hamas lays out its goals: Kill Jews, destroy Israel

Vol. 88/No. 9 - March 4, 2024

Some individuals and groups who condemn Hamas for its bloody anti-Jewish pogrom and massacre of 1,200 people Oct. 7 are now backing the call by Hamas apologists for a cease-fire, which would allow the Islamist outfit to survive and slaughter…


Israel’s blows against Hamas open road to unite Arabs, Jews

Vol. 88/No. 7 - February 19, 2024
Protest in Gaza against Hamas near Al Aqsa Hospital in Deir al Balah Jan. 24. Demonstrators chanted, “The people want to end the war!” “We want to go to our homes” and “Yes to handing over the hostages.” Israel’s blows against Hamas are opening space for Palestinians in Gaza to speak out.

The Israeli army continues to advance against Hamas in Gaza. A decisive defeat of Hamas — which is armed, financed and trained by the reactionary bourgeois regime in Iran — would be a blow to forces that promote Jew-hatred, from…