Workers face blows as today’s crisis of capitalism deepens – The Militant

Workers face blows as today’s crisis of capitalism deepens – The Militant

Pro-Hamas thugs attack Toronto meeting defending Israel – The Militant

[….] Some 40 or 50 thugs forced their way into the building shortly before the program was to begin. They smashed through a glass door screaming “Free Palestine,” and attacked Jonathan Karten, one of the Israeli soldiers. Six of the attackers were arrested and charged by police.

A video posted on YouTube shows people at the meeting barricaded inside a room as the pro-Hamas mob broke through the door. It also shows Karten step up to defend the meeting.

In a post on Instagram, meeting organizers wrote their “peaceful event … turned into absolute chaos,” describing “broken glass, blood everywhere — all because we’re Jewish.”

Karten and one of the students were taken to a nearby hospital. The Israel Defense Force soldier then returned and gave his talk. “I wasn’t going to let them take that away from us,” he said.

Students for Justice in Palestine had issued a call to “shut down the event,” posting on Instagram, “ALL OUT TO 49 ELM STREET NOW! Zionist war criminals have once again been welcomed into this city. … War criminals will never be welcome in our communities.”

Students for Justice in Palestine here is part of a North American-wide organization. It considers Hamas’ massacre of 1,200 Jews and others, rape and mutilation, and the seizure of hostages on Oct. 7 as an act of national liberation.

The group was one of the organizers of a two-month-long encampment at the University of Toronto in May-June 2024. It was one of 100 or so encampments held in the U.S. and Canada marked by Jew-hating slogans like “Death to the Zionists”; “We say justice! You say how? Burn Tel Aviv to the ground!”; and “Go Hamas, we love you. We support your rockets too.”

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Pro-Hamas thugs attack Toronto meeting defending Israel – The Militant

‘Workers need to break from the two parties of the bosses’ – The Militant

‘Workers need to break from the two parties of the bosses’ – The Militant

[….] “We’re not ‘socialists’ like the Democratic Socialists’ Zohran Mamdani or Bernie Sanders,” Kuniansky replied. “What they’re doing is trying to draw more young people back into the Democratic Party,” which, she noted, is the oldest party of the U.S. capitalist rulers.

The SWP ran its own candidate for mayor of New York, Paul Mailhot.

“We’re not for a big welfare state,” which is what the Democrats advocate, she said. The SWP is “for jobs, good jobs and the union movement fighting for that. We’re for a public works program to provide jobs at union wages led by the union movement.

“We fight for cost-of-living increases in contracts so that your wages go up with inflation,” Kuniansky said. “We fight for jobs that pay a wage high enough to afford a family and have a schedule where you can spend time with your family.

“The working class is capable of acting in its own interests,” the SWP candidate concluded. “We put forward a course of action to fight” along a road for working people of town and country to come to power and end the evils of the capitalist system.

‘No Kings’: scam to keep workers from breaking with bosses parties – The Militant

‘No Kings’: scam to keep workers from breaking with bosses parties – The Militant

Mamdani aims to suck workers back into the Democratic Party

The working class needs to take political power! – The Militant