Defeat of Ontario law is victory for all workers

Vol. 86/No. 43 - November 21, 2022

The victory won by 55,000 school workers in Ontario, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, is an important victory for all working people and our unions. Defying the provincial government’s imposition of a new anti-strike law, they went…


Workers in US, Canada fight boss, gov’t attacks

School workers defeat Ontario gov’t attack on right to strike

Vol. 86/No. 43 - November 21, 2022
Striking school workers at Hawkesbury, Ontario, Nov. 7. Gov’t. backed off anti-strike law.

TORONTO — In a major victory for working people and our unions, 55,000 education support workers, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, ended their two-day walkout in Ontario, after forcing the Conservative provincial government to back down from…


Workers in US, Canada fight boss, gov’t attacks

White House says Congress would prevent any rail strike

Vol. 86/No. 43 - November 21, 2022

LINCOLN, Neb. — “We surprised Katie Farmer this morning, she did not expect us to greet her with our contract demands — safer working conditions and sick-days-time-off,” Jakob Forsgren, a welder and track repair worker and chair of local Lodge…


Democrats’ attacks on rights at heart of US class struggle

Vol. 86/No. 43 - November 21, 2022
Former FBI directors Robert Mueller, left, and his replacement James Comey, June 21, 2013. Both served as lead special prosecutors in Democrats’ witch hunt against President Donald Trump. Democratic officials are considering new prosecutor to try to stop him if he runs again.

Throughout the final days of the 2022 campaign, Democrats centered their fire on former President Donald Trump. They claim “democracy itself” is threatened if he ever holds office again. Before Trump was even elected in 2016, Democrats unleashed the FBI…


Two months in, support grows for Iran protests

Vol. 86/No. 43 - November 21, 2022

In the face of the “nationwide protests and uprising of the people of Iran for almost two months,” the Teachers’ Union in Kurdistan province stated Nov. 7, the Iranian government’s “use of naked violence has so far resulted in hundreds…


Defend Ukraine independence! Russian soldiers oppose Putin’s war

Vol. 86/No. 43 - November 21, 2022
Thousands of Russian conscript soldiers confront Gen. Kirill Kulakov, in hat, at Kazan training base in southwest Russia. They protested treatment by the brass, refused to be deployed to front lines. Chants included, “Get out of here!” “Shame on you!” “Down with Putin’s regime!”

Determined to defend their country’s sovereignty, working people in Ukraine have pushed back assaults by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces. The bloody consequences of the war are fueling the struggle between working people and Putin’s capitalist government, with resistance growing…


For 30th time, UN denounces US gov’t embargo on Cuba

Vol. 86/No. 43 - November 21, 2022
Protesters march from Times Square to United Nations building in New York Oct. 29 demanding an end to Washington’s economic, financial and trade war against Cuba.

UNITED NATIONS — For the 30th time since 1992, the United Nations General Assembly Nov. 3 voted overwhelmingly to call for “ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.” The resolution passed…


Expand the reach of Socialist Workers Party, the ‘Militant’

Vol. 86/No. 43 - November 21, 2022
Nana and Tyler McChristian talk with SWP member Leroy Watson, right, in Lake Station, Indiana, Oct. 30. “The Militant sounds like just what we need,” Nana said, and asked for extra subscription forms. “I’ve got friends who work in the steel mill who will be interested.”

Socialist Workers Party candidates and supporters used the final days before the Nov. 8 elections to discuss with fellow working people what we can do together to stand up to bosses’ moves to push the deepening capitalist crisis onto our…


The Jewish question can only be resolved by the working class

Vol. 86/No. 43 - November 21, 2022
Socialist Workers Party called November 1938 protest in New York demanding Washington open entry to the U.S. to Jewish refugees. Action was called after Kristallnacht, when Nazi storm troopers rounded up 30,000 Jews, destroyed Jewish businesses, synagogues in Germany.

The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation by Abram Leon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. Leon was won from Zionism to Marxism by supporters of Leon Trotsky. He wrote the book while a leader of the…