Month: December 2023

Defend independence of Ukraine!
No to the US gov’t push for ‘peace’

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023
Maria Andreeva holds Moscow protest against Putin’s war on Ukraine.

The U.S. rulers’ response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, like their response to all events worldwide, has always been to advance their own strategic economic, political and military interests, not those of the Ukrainian people. Their aim is to restrict…

Letters

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023

Roots of Hamas ‘eye-opening’ The Militant article by Terry Evans on the pro-Hitler roots of Hamas is eye-opening, particularly the role played by the Arab Higher Executive Committee of Palestine in 1948. This group organized anti-Jewish militias using “German POWs…

Correction

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023

In the article, “Working people in Ukraine fight genocidal war waged by Putin,” in Militant issue no. 46, Russia’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, is quoted as boasting 700,000 Ukrainian children have been taken to Russia. Kyiv authorities give…

25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023

December 21, 1998 Working people should condemn the government probes into the affairs of NY District Council 37 of AFSCME, which has nothing to do with “rooting out corruption” among the union officialdom. This provocative interference into the affairs of…

Defeat of Hamas, fight against Jew-hatred are union business

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023

Everything the bosses and their governments do is aimed at protecting their investments, markets and profits and their cutthroat national interests against rival capitalist regimes. Workers have an opposite class standpoint — we are one international class of toilers with…

UAW members debate, vote up contract, more fights to come

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023
Chanting, “No deal? No wheels!” members of United Auto Workers Local 551 rallied at their union hall Oct. 7 in Chicago. The 4,600 workers at Ford there went on strike Sept. 29, bringing the total to 25,000 workers on strike against the Big Three auto companies in 21 states.

The United Auto Workers announced Nov. 20 that its members at Ford, General Motors and Stellantis had voted up new contracts after strikes at the Big Three’s assembly plants, parts production sites and distribution centers. They cover over 146,000 autoworkers.…

Refuse workers strike continues, bosses’ move for injunction fails

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023

WARRINGTON, England — Labour Party-led local authorities failed in their attempt to use the courts to break the strike that began Oct. 3 by over 70 Unite-organized refuse collectors here. Workers recently voted to continue their strike into December. Union…

Rail workers rally, demand paid sick leave

Dozens of track workers, members of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes union, held two protests Nov. 15 — one outside the headquarters of the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad in Hammond, Indiana, and the other at the U.S. offices…

Joliet nurses strike for higher pay, increased staffing

Vol. 87/No. 46 - December 11, 2023

JOLIET, Ill. — Over 500 Illinois Nurses Association union members began a two-day strike here Nov. 21, demanding increased staffing and higher wages. A walkout in August failed to win a new contract. “We want to provide safe, quality care…

Women in Ukraine win right to work in the country’s coal mines

Vol. 87/No. 46 - December 11, 2023
Natalia and Krystyna take elevator Nov. 17 to work underground in the Pavlohradska coal mine in eastern Ukraine. This is first time in decades women won right to work down in the mines.

More than 100 women are today working underground at the Pavlohradska coal mine in southeastern Ukraine. This is the first time that women have been hired to work underground since the counterrevolutionary regime of Joseph Stalin barred women from doing…