Ohio workers at GM battery plant vote 710-16 to join UAW

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023

Workers at an electric vehicle battery factory near Warren, Ohio, overwhelmingly voted to join the United Auto Workers. The 710-16 vote, announced by the National Labor Relations Board Dec. 9, marks the first time workers have won union representation in…


Iran protests for rights, against executions stoke gov’t divisions

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023

More than three months of daily protests are widening rifts between rival factions among Iran’s capitalist rulers. The execution of two protesters, death sentences for 11 others and charges that carry the death penalty against six more have expanded demonstrations…


University of California teaching assistants strike for over a month

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023

LOS ANGELES — As the strike of University of California workers reached its 31st day, hundreds of striking academic workers rallied at the U.C. campus here Dec. 14. They were joined by supporters, including faculty, students and members of UNITE…


‘Cuba’s revolution grew in extraordinary school of experience’

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023
Che Guevara, left, with Fidel Castro in Cuba in 1962. They led workers and peasants to take political power in 1959, and use it to make a socialist revolution. The Cuban Revolution “discovered Marxism by its own methods,” Guevara said, “in living contact with the people.”

Che Guevara Talks to Young People is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for December. Ernesto Che Guevara was an Argentine-born revolutionary who joined Fidel Castro and his Rebel Army, becoming an outstanding leader of the Cuban Revolution. They…


Communist League: ‘Down with Canadian rulers’ Emergencies Act’

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023
Heavily armed Canadian police were mobilized under Emergencies Act to crush truckers’ “Freedom Convoy” protest in Ottawa Feb. 19, a serious threat to the whole labor movement.

MONTREAL — Six weeks of mandatory public hearings on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government imposition of the never-before-used Emergencies Act concluded Nov. 25. The act aimed to crush the three-week-long truckers’ “Freedom Convoy” protest in Ottawa and at border-crossing…


Holiday greetings to workers behind bars

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023

New Year greetings to our readers behind bars! The Militant will continue to tell the truth about the conditions you face and keep getting news about the struggles of working people worldwide into your hands. 2022 was quite a year!…



25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023

January 12, 1998 BOSTON — A meeting here Dec. 10 kicked off a year of activity in solidarity with the struggle of the Puerto Rican people. Puerto Rico is a U.S. colony in the Caribbean, one of the last official…


Case workers hold strike rallies in Wisconsin, Iowa

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023
Striking United Auto Workers Local 180 members at Case New Holland rally in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, Dec. 17 to build support in fight for higher wages, affordable health care.

MOUNT PLEASANT, Wis. — Some 200 United Auto Workers Local 180 members and their supporters rallied in subfreezing weather here Dec. 17 to build support for their strike against the bosses at Case New Holland. The 600 Case workers at…


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…