The fight against jew-hatred and pogroms in the imperialist epoch: stakes for the international working class

Jew-hatred and the slaughter of Jews—pogroms—like Hamas carried out on October 7, 2023, aren't new. They go back centuries.

What is new is that pogroms are now part of the permanent social convulsions and wars of the imperialist epoch. Capital's rivalry to carve up the globe; two world wars; the extermination of six million Jews. All make clear that fighting Jew-hatred is of decisive importance to the working class and oppressed nations of the entire world.

As British and US rulers slammed the doors over and over in the 1940s to survivors of the Holocaust, Israel's birth as a refuge for Jews was necessary and inevitable. It is a capitalist state in an imperialist world, however, and offers no lasting haven for Jews. Under capital's world domination, no such haven exists.

But there is a way forward, as shown by the October 1917 Russian Revolution. A revolutionary workers party forged in struggle by V.I. Lenin—the Bolsheviks—led the toilers to conquer state power and chart a course to end capitalist exploitation and national oppression. Working people across the former tsarist empire took destiny in their own hands and together began to build a new world, finding ways to resolve seemingly intractable conflicts among themselves.

They showed the road for working people today: forging proletarian parties able to lead hundreds of millions to fight for workers power, uproot exploitation by capital, end all national oppression, and build a socialist world.

That is what this book is about.

Also available in Spanish (ISBN: 9781604881738), French (ISBN: 9781604881844)

“This is a brave and eye-opening wakeup call for all those who call themselves socialists while falling into the trap of reactionary terrorists disguised as allegedly anti-colonial freedom fighters. This collection of many excerpts from important socialist leaders and thinkers demonstrates their straightforward standing against Jew-hatred, which they analyze as an instrument in the hands of reactionary forces, utilized against workers and social progress.”
—Dr. Tom Navon, University of Haifa