India farmers battle gov’t attack against price supports

Vol. 85/No. 1 - January 4, 2021

Hundreds of thousands of protesting farmers in India remain in a standoff with the government over new laws introduced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that would lift state controls on the pricing and marketing of their crops. Since the end…


Workers need to organize, fight for jobs, health care

For-profit health industry, boss attacks deepen crisis
Vol. 85/No. 1 - January 4, 2021
Health care workers at Stroger hospital in Chicago during one-day strike by 1,500 workers at Cook County facilities Dec. 22. Nurses, health workers have gone on strike across the country.

After refusing for months to pass any relief measures for working people, Congress adopted a package of short-lived handouts to small-business owners, some government services and to some of the spiraling numbers of workers thrown out of their jobs. The…


Cuban Revolution points road forward for working people

Vol. 85/No. 1 - January 4, 2021

Millions of working people in the U.S. — and throughout the capitalist world — are being thrown out of work. The bosses and their government are intensifying layoffs and shutdowns of small businesses that isolate workers. The for-profit hospital industry…


Ala. Amazon workers win right to vote to have a union

Vol. 85/No. 1 - January 4, 2021

ATLANTA — Despite objections from Amazon, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Dec. 16 that workers at Amazon’s warehouse and distribution center in Bessemer, Alabama, have shown enough support for the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union to hold a…




Workers in Scotland speak out against economic, health crisis

Vol. 85/No. 1 - January 4, 2021
Some 400 Edinburgh Royal Infirmary nurses march Aug. 18 demanding pay raise. Like working people elsewhere in U.K. they are looking for ways to resist assaults on their livelihoods.

GLASGOW, Scotland — Opposition parties turned on U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson after he told a Conservative Party meeting that the devolution of political powers from London to an assembly in Scotland had been a “disaster” and the “biggest mistake”…


Workers protest all across Iraq, demand back pay, jobs

Vol. 85/No. 1 - January 4, 2021
Workers block road leading to oil complex in Basra Dec. 23. Fight against unpaid wages, for jobs, services, cuts across divisions among toilers in Iraq and Kurdistan, and Sunni and Shiite.

Following days of protests across Iraqi Kurdistan by public sector workers demanding back pay, jobs, public services and an end to corruption, thousands more working people took to the streets of Basra and Baghdad to demand a halt to Iraqi…


Ohio protest: ‘Prosecute cop who killed Casey Goodson’

Vol. 85/No. 1 - January 4, 2021

Rallying at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus Dec. 19, dozens of people protested the killing of Casey Goodson Jr. by Franklin County, Ohio, sheriff’s deputy Jason Meade. Tamala Payne, Goodson’s mother, has led protests demanding authorities charge Meade for the…


Give gov’t ‘stimulus’ payout to the ‘Militant’!

Vol. 85/No. 1 - January 4, 2021

The Militant is launching a special fund appeal urging readers to make a donation from their “stimulus” check from the government to help expand the reach of the paper. The reporting and action program the Militant presents every week, as…