Defense of constitutional freedoms crucial for the working class today

Vol. 87/No. 48 - December 25, 2023

As President Joseph Biden’s reelection bid flounders, the heart of the Democratic Party’s 2024 campaign is to use the courts to stop Donald Trump’s campaign. Their legal tactics run from lawsuits aimed at ruling him off the ballot for “insurrection”…


Kindertransport — In 1938 London let a few Jewish children in

Vol. 87/No. 48 - December 25, 2023
Statue outside London train station commemorates Kindertransport children. To escape Nazi terror in Europe, for 10 months U.K. rulers let in 10,000 mainly Jewish children, but barred their families. They closed the door on millions seeking refuge from the Holocaust.

LONDON — Kindertransport, the evacuation to the U.K. of 10,000 mainly Jewish children fleeing Nazi persecution in 1938-39, is touted by capitalist politicians and the media as an example of the British government coming to the aid of the Jewish…


Former Black Panther leader Ed Poindexter dies in prison

Vol. 87/No. 48 - December 25, 2023

LINCOLN, Neb. — Former Black Panther Party leader Ed Poindexter, who was framed up and imprisoned for 53 years, died Dec. 7 in a Nebraska prison at the age of 79. In the last few years, his family and supporters…


Dominican gov’t pits workers against Haitian immigrants

Vol. 87/No. 48 - December 25, 2023
Retired Haitian sugarcane worker Ephesiel Bonel, left, holds up his identification card from formerly state-owned Río Haina Sugar Mill, often only ID these workers have. At right is Yega Fabián, another retired Haitian worker. Shirt says, “Pensions for all sugarcane workers.”

The government of President Luis Abinader in the Dominican Republic has stepped up deportations of Haitian immigrants and Dominican citizens of Haitian descent. This takes place as the May 2024 presidential election is approaching. Abinader’s campaign aims to rally support…


DHL workers in Cincinnati strike over safety, wages

Vol. 87/No. 48 - December 25, 2023
Teamsters members picket at DHL Express in Hebron, Kentucky, Dec. 9. More than 1,100 newly organized workers at DHL’s main U.S. hub struck Dec. 7 over safety, wages, dignity.

HEBRON, Ky. — More than 1,100 newly organized DHL Express workers at the delivery company’s main U.S. hub here walked out on strike Dec. 7. The airport ramp workers and tug drivers, members of Teamsters Local 100, are fighting for…


Students take on Jew-haters at Columbia University

Vol. 87/No. 48 - December 25, 2023

The actions of so-called pro-Palestine groups worldwide who hail Hamas’ murderous Oct. 7 pogrom as “a new stage in the resistance against Zionism” have sparked a rise in Jew-hatred, highly visible on college campuses. Some university administrations have responded with…


‘Washington Post’ workers hold 1-day strike over wages, jobs

Vol. 87/No. 48 - December 25, 2023
Workers at Washington Post picket Dec. 7 during one-day strike demanding wage raise and against plans by Jeff Bezos-owned paper to cut 240 jobs — 10% of the workforce.

WASHINGTON — Over 700 Washington Post reporters, editors, copy editors, clerical workers and employees in the paper’s commercial and advertising departments staged a one-day strike Dec. 7. It was the largest labor protest at the company since a bitter strike…


UK refuse workers win strike, strengthen their union

Vol. 87/No. 48 - December 25, 2023

WARRINGTON, England — Refuse workers here returned to work Dec. 8 after their two-month-long strike won significant gains. “All 19 temporary workers on nine-month contracts are given permanent contracts, with their new contract backdated to when they started in March,…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 87/No. 48 - December 25, 2023

December 28, 1998 We urge all working people to join in campaigning against the murderous, imperial assault Washington has unleashed against the people of Iraq, demanding, “Stop the bombing now! Hands off Iraq! All U.S. troops and inspectors out of…