Moscow wages war on Ukraine toilers, Russian troops protest

Vol. 88/No. 48 - December 23, 2024

For over 1,000 days of war, working people in Ukraine have tenaciously resisted the invasion by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime. Both sides are using drones as weapons, but Kyiv overwhelmingly targets Russian military sites, while Moscow focuses its fire…


Georgia protesters defy attacks from pro-Moscow government

Vol. 88/No. 48 - December 23, 2024
Mass demonstration in Tbilisi, Georgia, Nov. 28 after pro-Moscow Georgian Dream government announced plans to postpone talks on joining EU until at least 2028. Daily nationwide protests call for fresh elections in defiance of brutal attacks by security forces.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators continue to protest across Georgia after the pro-Moscow Georgian Dream government announced plans Nov. 28 to postpone talks on joining the European Union until at least 2028. Undeterred by brutal attacks from security forces, protesters…


Freedom for Boualem Sansal! Algeria gov’t imprisons prize-winning novelist

Vol. 88/No. 48 - December 23, 2024

The Algerian government has imprisoned prominent French Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal on charges of violating national security. The 75-year-old writer is an outspoken critic of reactionary Islamism, authoritarianism, and government attacks on freedom of expression. He was disappeared for a…


Fall of Assad shakes Mideast, US-led imperialist world order

Vol. 88/No. 48 - December 23, 2024
People in Aleppo, Syria, Dec. 8 celebrate fall of brutal Bashar al-Assad regime. Israel’s blows to Hezbollah and Iranian forces, and the weakening of Moscow by Ukrainian resistance to its invasion, left Assad’s unpopular government to collapse in face of the weeklong rebel uprising.

The overthrow of the 50-year bloody dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad and his father is a consequence of the world-shaking impact of the resistance to Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, anti-Jewish pogrom in Israel and Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.  Like those two…


Strikers out six weeks in fight with Milk-Bone win solidarity

Vol. 88/No. 48 - December 23, 2024

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Workers at Milk-Bone are winning broad support as their six-week strike continues. The 165 members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 36G walked out Oct. 28 in a fight for solid wage increases and…


Postal workers strike across Canada is fight over wages, pensions, safety

Vol. 88/No. 48 - December 23, 2024
Striking members of Canadian Union of Postal Workers picket at Chabanel Street depot in Montreal Nov. 25. Homemade sign says, “Heroes in pandemic. Zeros now! Thanks!”

MONTREAL — Over 55,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers went on a nationwide strike Nov. 15, standing up against employer plans to introduce part-time weekend positions at lower pay and second-rate benefits.   Mediated negotiations between Canada…


After Trump wins election, liberals speak out against ‘ignorant’ voters

Vol. 88/No. 48 - December 23, 2024
Boeing Machinists march after union rally in Seattle Oct. 15. Workers won a 38% wage increase. “The strike gave Boeing a taste of what we’re capable of,” one worker told the Militant.

Amid soul-searching by liberal commentators and Democratic Party politicians, Washington Post  columnist Jennifer Rubin claims she knows why Kamala Harris didn’t beat Donald Trump. The problem, Rubin wrote Nov. 29, was the “prevalence of low-information” voters, who “know shockingly little…


Australia warehouse workers fight boss speedup drive

Vol. 88/No. 48 - December 23, 2024

SYDNEY — After 17 days on strike, Woolworths warehouse workers, members of the United Workers Union, won a victory, pushing back the company’s attempt to impose new speedup rules. More than 1,500 workers at three warehouses in Victoria and one…


Starbucks workers picket at Minneapolis store for a contract

Vol. 88/No. 48 - December 23, 2024

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Starbucks Workers United union members and their supporters held a “practice picket” Dec. 7 outside a Starbucks store here demanding bosses finally sign a contract. Pickets shouted, “No contract, no coffee” and “What’s disgusting? Union busting,”…


Prelco workers return unbowed after six-month boss lockout

Vol. 88/No. 48 - December 23, 2024

MONTREAL — Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) members at Prelco’s Montreal window-glass production plant voted by 96% to accept the company’s offer of a 21.5% raise Nov. 17. The new contract runs through September 2029. “At first, the company…