Anniversary of Oct. 7 pogrom: Fight against Jew-hatred key – The Militant

Anti-Zionism today is antisemitism

Hamas, together with various Stalinist, Maoist and anarchist currents, has put together a well-oiled international propaganda machine that demonizes Israel. They claim they’re “anti-Zionist,” not antisemitic.

But a report issued Aug. 30 by an administration-appointed task force at Columbia University documents egregious cases of Jew-hatred at the campus, a center of anti-Israel actions.

A Jewish student, who had put up a mezuzah — a traditional Jewish symbol — on her doorway in an on-campus dormitory, was harassed at all hours of the day and night after Oct. 7 by Hamas apologists who banged on her door demanding she explain Israel’s actions.

“Students have reported having necklaces ripped off their necks and being pinned against walls, while walking back to their dorm” or “on their way to synagogue,” the report noted. Others were shouted at to “go back to Poland.” Many Jewish students have stopped walking alone on campus.

Anniversary of Oct. 7 pogrom: Fight against Jew-hatred key – The Militant

‘Working class needs to take political power’ – The Militant

“The governments in Ukraine and in Israel are capitalist governments and they depend on fickle imperialist allies that put their own interests first,” Fruit said. “But if they win the wars they are fighting for their survival, the working class there will have more space to organize, to unite and to reach out to their allies in the working classes of other countries.” Ultimately, she said, “the solution is tied to building a revolutionary working-class party of all nationalities in every country,” Fruit said — including in Israel and Ukraine — “that fights for workers power.”

‘Working class needs to take political power’ – The Militant

Forging a proletarian party in the class struggle today – The Militant

“Every class struggle is a political struggle.” With that statement Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, opened his report to an International Socialist Educational Conference in Oberlin, Ohio. “That’s a reality more and more workers in the United States are bumping up against in their own lives and battles today.”

Forging a proletarian party in the class struggle today – The Militant

Socialism 101: from Union of the Workers blog

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300 days since the October seventh pogrom. What we know and what we don’t know. – The Union Of Workers

[....] We know that for the communists our strategic tasks remain the same: to build revolutionary workers parties in the countries where we live that will educate and organize the working-class along the road to power, that can fight for the construction of workers and farmers governments, which will give us the most powerful tool imaginable to allow the workers of the world to come together as equals to build a socialist future.

What remains unknown

What we don't know is the pace and form this fight will take, we just know it's coming, if not in the lifetime of me and my peers, then in the lifetimes of the younger generations and those generations yet to come.

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https://theunionofworkers.wordpress.com/2024/08/01/300-days-since-the-october-seventh-pogrom-what-we-know-and-what-we-dont-know/ 

Shots at Trump are product of liberal frenzy, capitalist crisis – The Militant

....The attempt on Trump came after over eight years of concerted efforts by Democrats, liberal press outlets, the middle-class left, late-night talk show hosts and more to portray Trump as a fascist and deadly danger to capitalist “democracy.” As the November election has come nearer, and as the Democratic incumbent Joseph Biden’s campaign has stumbled, this shrill tirade has grown more and more hysterical and violent.

In 2022 Biden declared that what he termed “MAGA-Republicans,” who number in the tens of millions, are “semi-fascists” who “threaten the very foundations of our republic.” Just a few days before the shooting, Biden said the Democrats’ campaign needs to “put Trump in a bullseye.” The shooting is a reflection of the deepening political crisis racking the U.S. capitalist rulers and their two-party setup. The Democrats in particular are beset by deep differences reflected in the recent debate over Biden’s candidacy.

What really drives their hysteria is growing concern over the wide working-class support for Trump. Despite what they claim, this doesn’t represent a turn to the “far right,” any more than does the vote for the European parliament and other recent elections. It reflects the fact workers are increasingly looking for a way to fight against the effects of the crises of capitalism that the employers and their government push on their backs. The rulers fear growing class struggle to come....

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Shots at Trump are product of liberal frenzy, capitalist crisis – The Militant

Are working people in Europe flocking to join the ‘far right’? – The Militant

Elections to the European Parliament June 6-9 saw heavy losses for governing capitalist parties that tens of millions of working people hold responsible for the worsening conditions they confront. The results reflect these crisis conditions, but they’re presented in the liberal press worldwide as a shift of the working classes to the “far right.”

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Are working people in Europe flocking to join the ‘far right’? – The Militant