Help win ‘Militant’ renewals — Special offer on new book

Vol. 87/No. 3 - January 16, 2023

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Protests hit Scottish rulers’ attacks on women’s rights

Vol. 87/No. 3 - January 16, 2023
Hundreds have protested Scotland’s “Gender Recognition Reform Bill.” Action outside Parliament in Edinburgh Oct. 6 denounces policies of Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

EDINBURGH, Scotland — Hundreds gathered outside the Scottish Parliament here Dec. 21 to protest the passage of a bill based on anti-scientific notions that “men” and “women” are merely subjective categories that can be changed at will. Such views undermine…


London Abellio Bus drivers strike against attacks on wages, conditions

Vol. 87/No. 3 - January 16, 2023

LONDON — “The strike is solid,” Jim Hart, Unite union representative at the Abellio Bus depot in Battersea, told the Militant Dec. 31. They’ve carried out 13 days of strike action since November, fighting against boss attacks on their wages…


Sutter nurses rally, end 9-day strike, vow to continue fight

Vol. 87/No. 3 - January 16, 2023
Striking nurses and supporters rally Jan. 1 outside a Sutter hospital in Oakland, California. They’re fighting for increased staffing, better working conditions, against hospital closures.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Union nurses at Sutter Alta Bates hospitals here and in Berkeley concluded a nine-day strike on New Year’s Day with rallies at both locations. Some 1,800 members of the California Nurses Association had turned down hospital bosses’…


New staff writer joins ‘Militant’

Vol. 87/No. 3 - January 16, 2023

Joining the full-time Militant writing staff is Vivian Sahner, a member of the Socialist Workers Party branch in Northern New Jersey. Sahner was the 2021 SWP candidate for lieutenant governor in New Jersey while part of the party’s national trade…


What is behind the rising tensions in the Balkans?

Vol. 87/No. 3 - January 16, 2023

As the nearly yearlong invasion of Ukraine by Moscow continues, rising tensions between Serbia, backed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Kosovo could lead to new fighting in the Balkans. The attempt by Russian President Vladimir Putin to stamp out…



UC graduate student workers end strike, make gains

Vol. 87/No. 3 - January 16, 2023

LOS ANGELES — Some 36,000 University of California graduate student workers across the state organized by the United Auto Workers ratified a new union contract Dec. 23, ending their strike. It was the nation’s largest strike to date of academic…


Homeless Delaware poultry plant workers face eviction

Vol. 87/No. 3 - January 16, 2023

MILLSBORO, Del. — In a statement printed in the Jan. 2 Militant, Ilona Gersh, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Chicago mayor, points to the need for conditions that allow young workers to begin families, including affordable housing. This is an…


The capitalist rulers turn to fascism to smash the working class

Vol. 87/No. 3 - January 16, 2023
Teamsters Local 544 Union Defense Guard in 1938. Showing road for workers toward taking power, unionists across Minneapolis-St. Paul area swelled its ranks to block mobilization of employer-funded strikebreakers, fascist thugs.

The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany by Russian revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. The term “fascist” is falsely used by liberals and the middle-class left today as an anti-working-class epithet. Trotsky…