Why the Holocaust made the creation of Israel inevitable – The Militant

[....] That betrayal, along with the Nazi murder machine, the refusal of the imperialist powers to open their doors to the Jews, and the refusal of millions of Jews to accept those devastating consequences without a fight made the creation of Israel as a refuge for Jews inevitable. And today, in a world where there are Nazi-like forces that are trying to inflict a new Holocaust, that refuge must be defended.

But Israel’s existence is not a permanent solution. A road forward requires building the kind of revolutionary working-class parties that can put an end to Jew-hatred forever. Read The Fight Against Jew-Hatred and Pogroms in the Imperialist Epoch: Stakes for the International Working Class by V.I. Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Farrell Dobbs, James P. Cannon, Jack Barnes and Dave Prince, available from Pathfinder Press.

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Why the Holocaust made the creation of Israel inevitable – The Militant

Why the Socialist Workers Party is defying the far left on Israel

https://jweekly.com/2025/01/21/local-members-of-socialist-workers-party-defy-the-far-left-on-israel/ 

Why Trump wants to take over Greenland, the Panama Canal – The Militant

Growing capitalist rivalry in Arctic

Since its invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has reopened dozens of Soviet military bases in the Arctic and increased submarine patrols and exercises there.

Beijing has acquired mining operations in Greenland. Chinese capitalists seek control over shipping lanes in the Arctic, which offer shorter export routes than some they now use. Under Trump’s first presidency, the Pentagon successfully pressed the Danish government to block Beijing from financing three airports in Greenland.

U.S. and rival capitalists also covet Greenland’s profitable deposits of oil, natural gas, graphite and other rare-earth elements that are used in manufacturing many high-tech goods.

“Our future and fight for independence is our own business,” Greenland’s prime minister, Mute Egede, said in response to Trump’s remarks, before adding he looks forward to talks with Trump.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says she wants to keep hold of Greenland, but would welcome an increase in the U.S. military presence there. The rival governments of France and Germany both condemned Trump’s comments....

Why Trump wants to take over Greenland, the Panama Canal – The Militant

‘US capital rules through its twin parties. It supports both.’ – The Militant

[....] There are differences in the Republican and Democratic parties, in my opinion, though not in the sense that J.M. takes as his point of departure — that the Republicans are more “reactionary” than the Democrats. This is an illusion entertained by many workers and fostered by the bulk of the labor bureaucracy, the Social-Democrats, and the Stalinists. The Militant does well to center its fire on this illusion; this is the main point, and should be the burden of our agitation. Big capital rules through the mechanism of the two parties as far as fundamental issues are concerned, but not always directly in response to their unanimous commands.

There are deep conflicts of interest as well as differences of opinion in the ranks of the capitalists. The two parties, which are in reality two big factions of a unique two-party system united on fundamentals, and the numerous factions and cross-currents within them, reflect these conflicts and differences. The big capitalists on the whole are more class conscious than the workers, but they are by no means omniscient in judging their own political interests. They don’t always know what is best for them; and as The Militant correctly observes, they are not notably grateful to politicians who have served them best in a given situation....

‘US capital rules through its twin parties. It supports both.’ – The Militant

California officials can lie with impunity, secure in the knowledge that no one will make them pay for their crimes.

A comrade notes:

California officials can lie with impunity, secure in the knowledge that no one will make them pay for their crimes. Michael Shellehnberger reports:

"As a new wave of fire and high winds threaten Los Angeles, the media is reporting that California’s elected leaders are not to blame and that right-wing influencers and Donald Trump are spreading misinformation and politicizing a tragedy. Racial and gender quotas through DEI aren’t to blame. No, Mayor Karen Bass didn’t cut the Fire Department’s budget. No, Gavin Newsom didn’t cut CalFire’s wildfire prevention budget. And no, there wasn’t any way to prevent these fires or the fire hydrant water from running out. Climate change made the disaster inevitable due to “whiplashing” rain levels."

They’re all lies.

--https://www.public.news/p/theyre-gaslighting-us?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-restack-comment&r=o9ew2&triedRedirect=true

What will Trump as the president mean for working people in the US? – The Militant

[....] Most of the Democrats’ attempts to use the capitalist “justice” system to cripple Trump and his 2024 campaign are now coming apart. But New York City Judge Juan Merchan set Jan. 10 — 10 days before the inauguration — for a hearing to pass sentence on the incoming president. Merchan presided over the biased prosecution of Trump on charges he recorded a hush money payment to a porn star as a legal cost.

While Merchan admits it would be wrong to imprison or even put Trump on probation, he says passing sentence will brand Trump as a felon.

Partisan commentators in the liberal media delight in the fact Trump will be the only president to ever take office as a “convicted felon.”

But even this isn’t enough for Washington Post commentator Jennifer Rubin. She says Trump should be thrown in jail. The fact this isn’t going to happen, she says, “is largely the fault of voters. They knew he was a felon. They still voted him into office,” she wrote Jan. 6. Rubin echoes the visceral contempt that the upper-middle-class meritocrats who lead the Democratic Party have toward working people.

What will Trump as the president mean for working people in the US? – The Militant