Ontario school workers step up fight for wage increases

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022
In Ontario, Canada, striking school workers, above, won solidarity, forced provincial government to junk anti-strike law. Fight has inspired working people, boosted fights by other unions.

MONTREAL — The Canadian Union of Public Employees continues to mobilize and gain widespread solidarity in the fight to win significant wage raises for its 55,000 members working in public education support jobs in Ontario and set an example of…


US rail unions set strike date over jobs, schedules, safety

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022
Members of Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, supporters, picket with information about their rail contract fight on bridge over BNSF rail yard in Lincoln, Nebraska, Nov. 2.

LINCOLN, Neb. — Over 115,000 rail union members are counting down to early December to see if they’ll go out on strike in their ongoing fight to defend their jobs, safety and health from assault by the rail bosses. And…


‘Militant’, SWP go over the top in fall campaigns

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022
SWP campaigner Josefina Otero talks with Rafael Ramirez at truck stop outside Fort Worth, Texas, Sept. 27, about importance of fight to defend constitutional rights in face of FBI attacks.

Members of the Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K. met their goals, winning 1,352 new readers to the Militant  and getting out 1,503 books by SWP leaders and other revolutionaries during the eight-week international…


Workers, youth call new strikes, protests in Iran

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022

Thousands of Iranian students, shopkeepers and workers heeded the call for protests Nov. 15-17 against the reactionary capitalist regime’s trampling on democratic rights. “The Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers Trade Unions once again honors the memory of the young people,…



Puerto Rico Cuba solidarity group pushes back against FBI harassment

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022
Milagros Rivera, left, president of Cuba Solidarity Committee in Puerto Rico, joined Oct. 29 protest in New York against U.S. rulers’ financial, trade and economic war against Cuba.

NEW YORK — “They haven’t been able to break Cuba, so they have to criminalize solidarity,” Milagros Rivera, president of the Cuba Solidarity Committee in Puerto Rico, said in an Oct. 28 interview at the Militant office here. She was…


Statue to honor Korean women forced into brothels by Tokyo

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022
Kim Bok-dong in April 2014 touches Statue of Peace, a memorial to victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery, at City Hall Plaza in Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do Province, in South Korea.

PHILADELPHIA — Some 30 people came to see a movie on the life of Kim Bok-dong, a Korean “comfort woman” and human rights activist, Oct. 30. They also discussed the decision of the Philadelphia Art Commission to approve the installation…


Ukraine pushes Moscow out of Kherson, defends nat’l sovereignty

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022

The Ukrainian people inflicted another significant defeat onto Moscow’s attempt to conquer their country. Kyiv’s troops swept into Kherson Nov. 11, the only regional capital Moscow had taken since the war began, after the regime of President Vladimir Putin ordered…


UK women’s conference takes up fight for equality, rights

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022

CARDIFF, Wales — Some 1,700 people joined discussion about how to advance the fight for women’s equality at the conference of FiLiA here Oct. 22-24. FiLiA, which describes itself as part of the women’s liberation movement, means daughter. Support for…