Judge upholds free speech in Uhuru 3 case

Vol. 88/No. 49 - December 30, 2024

MIAMI — The sentencing hearing for the Uhuru 3, leaders and supporters of the African People’s Socialist Party framed up on charges of conspiring to act as agents of Moscow, was held Dec. 16 at the federal courthouse in Tampa.…


Iran workers strike, protest, amid deepening crisis

Vol. 88/No. 49 - December 30, 2024

The blows Israeli forces have dealt to the capitalist rulers in Tehran and its “axis of resistance” have provoked unprecedented open debate and discussion in Iran, accelerated by the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. Working people increasingly oppose the…


Israeli army command refused to wake Netanyahu as Hamas pogrom loomed

Vol. 88/No. 49 - December 30, 2024

A year and a half before Hamas and Tehran launched their murderous Oct. 7, 2023, pogrom, the Israel Defense Forces Military Intelligence Directorate obtained a 40-page Hamas document. It “laid out almost exactly how Hamas eventually wound up carrying out…


Liberals, left hail Mangione’s killing of health care CEO

Vol. 88/No. 49 - December 30, 2024

NEW YORK — After staking out the site, an armed attacker waited in the early morning here Dec. 4 until Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, walked by on his way to a work conference. The gunman approached him from…


Back Ukraine’s fight to repel Moscow’s invasion

Vol. 88/No. 49 - December 30, 2024

Russian President Vladimir Putin is driving to conquer more territory in Ukraine’s southeast despite the staggering loss of the lives and limbs of Russian workers in uniform. Moscow’s bombardment of Ukraine’s cities and power grid continues to strike blows at…


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…


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…


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…