A DISGRACEFUL PRO-ZIONIST ISRAEL EDITORIAL IN THE ONCE TROTSKYIST SWP NEWSPAPER " THE MILITANT "

Stalinist lies about Iran’s nuclear weapon program By Janet Post Vol. 89/No. 24 July 14, 2025 " [Stalinist and other “left” groups in the U.S. and elsewhere that support the reactionary regime in Iran and its “axis of resistance” went into action in June to denounce Israel’s defensive strikes aimed at destroying Tehran’s capacity to build nuclear weapons and associated missile delivery systems. Tehran’s capitalist rulers promote the transparent fiction that its nuclear program is solely for generating electricity. But Tehran built huge facilities deep underground where it enriched hundreds of pounds of uranium to 60%, for which there is simply no civilian use. Its only use is in developing nuclear weapons. Even a few such weapons could annihilate the vast majority of Israel’s 7 million Jews, as well as 2 million Arabs, and others there. " ] [Greeneyez_301 Socialist Worker’s Party Israel/Palestine coverage [ " Can someone explain to me what the deal with the SWP is? They are literally the only socialist group I’ve seen who do not even talk about the struggle of the Palestinians while simultaneously repeating Zionist talking points. After seeing how they cover Trump as well it seems they are just a bunch of old white people cosplaying as 1940s socialist while actually having conservative views. "] SWP leader Norton Sandler: “There is no Zionist movement today” [ " I had quite a few misgivings about writing this article since the SWP of the USA is such a minor player. Yet its Zionist evolution is of such a shocking nature and because so many ex-members—including me—have been so perplexed by it that I finally decided to put something together. I very rarely write about this group nowadays but at one time it mattered a lot more to me. I was a member from 1967 to 1978 and at the time I left it had about 1500 members. Now it has around a hundred or so mostly aging (like me) cadre. I maintain a mailing list on the group at Yahoo that was originally designed to shunt discussions about it from ex-members off of Marxmail that really didn’t need to be burdened by such trivia. Ninety percent of our subscribers have no idea what the SWP was, even if at one time it was the apple of Leon Trotsky’s eye. " ]