Volunteers win bookstore, library orders for Pathfinder books

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023

This fall’s campaign to get Pathfinder books into bookstores, libraries and classrooms is well underway with volunteers on course to meet their goal of 115 orders by the end of January. So far, 81 orders have been won for books…


Canada school workers stood ground, won wage raise

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023
Canadian Union of Public Employees march in Ontario Nov. 4 wins support in strike that defeated provincial government anti-union law.

TORONTO — Ontario school workers, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, voted to approve a new contract, union President Laura Walton announced Dec. 5.  The vote followed the victory won by CUPE members when they defied provincial Premier…


Calif. farmer says ‘We need to stand with rail workers’ fight’

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023
Rail worker and SWP member Laura Garza with Will Scott on his farm near Fresno, California, Dec. 2. “Workers and farmers have a relationship and they can’t drive us apart,” Scott said.

FRESNO, Calif. — This Militant correspondent joined farmer Will Scott and rail worker Laura Garza to discuss the stakes for working people in standing together with rail unions in their fight against attacks by the bosses and government. We visited…


Ukraine bosses, gov’t attack health workers, care

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023

Nurses and other health care workers in Ukraine haven’t been paid for months as the capitalist rulers there press their attacks on the wages and job security of the working class in the midst of Moscow’s invasion. The government is…


Thousands protest inflation, corruption in Mongolia

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023

For more than a week thousands of demonstrators, most of them young, have braved subzero temperatures to protest corruption in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. The demonstrations began Dec. 4 as prices for necessities have soared. This included a 40%…


South Korea truckers end 16-day-long strike

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023
Thousands of South Korean owner-operators went on strike.

Striking South Korean owner-operator truck drivers, members of the Korean Federation of Public Service and Transport Workers’ Union, Truckers Solidarity Division, voted Dec. 9 to end their 16-day walkout. Thousands of truckers had gone on strike Nov. 24, seeking financial…


Letters

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023

Ken Evenhuis Ken Evenhuis, a nearly six-decades-long member and supporter of the Socialist Workers Party, died in Los Angeles Dec. 1. He was 77. Ken and his wife, Donna, joined the Young Socialist Alliance in 1964, attracted by the SWP…


Rail workers protest as gov’t imposes contract, bars strike

Rallies from Washington, DC, to Sparks, Nevada
Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023
Over 40 unionists at SMART-TD-organized rally Dec. 13 in Denver back rail workers’ struggle over job conditions, for safer crew sizes and family-friendly work schedules.

CHICAGO — In rail yards and on locomotives across the country discussion and debate continue among rail workers over how to respond to the ongoing attacks from the rail bosses and the government. These include grueling schedules, draconian attendance policies,…


Defend Ukraine independence! Demand Putin get out now!

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023
Kyiv residents visit “invincibility center” Nov. 24 to warm up, share news, recharge phones. Ukrainian working people responded to Moscow’s bombs with renewed determination.

The Ukrainian people are withstanding some of the heaviest aerial bombardment since Moscow’s war began as they fight tenaciously to drive back its invasion. Russian President Vladimir Putin seeks to demoralize working people by crippling Ukraine’s power supplies as winter…


Washington state mushroom workers rally for union

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023
Some 60 Ostrom Mushroom workers and supporters rally at Metropolitan Market in Seattle Nov. 20 to win support for their fight for representation by the United Farm Workers union.

SEATTLE — “We’ve come very far and we are not going to stop. A lot of us want a union,” Joceline Castillo, a worker at Ostrom Mushroom Farms,  told a rally of 60 other mushroom workers and supporters here Nov.…