Younger workers are hit hard by inflation, crisis of capitalism

Vol. 88/No. 21 - May 27, 2024

Young workers are being ravaged by the continuing scourge of inflation marking today’s capitalist economic and social crisis. The average credit card debt for 22- to 24-year-olds has ballooned to a record high of $2,834 per youth at the end…


Opening guns of World War III get louder

Vol. 88/No. 21 - May 27, 2024

The opening guns of World War III are getting louder, and the reality of the imperialist epoch is becoming clearer to millions. While the ruling capitalist families wield state power, their drive for profit, dog-eat-dog competition and sharpening clashes inexorably…



25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 21 - May 27, 2024

May 31, 1999 HAVANA, Cuba — “On May 17, 1959, we crossed the Rubicon,” stated Cuban president Fidel Castro at a rally here celebrating the adoption, exactly 40 years ago, of a land reform law, one of the first —…



Supermarket workers in UK strike over ‘toxic’ conditions

Vol. 88/No. 21 - May 27, 2024

LOWESTOFT, England — Some 175 workers struck the ASDA superstore in this small town 130 miles northeast of London May 10-11, the third strike in a campaign by General Municipal and Boilermakers union members against “toxic” conditions at the company.…


Rona home improvement store workers strike over wages, hours

Vol. 88/No. 21 - May 27, 2024

MONTREAL — “In April our strike vote was approved by 98%,” Massara Kamagate, Confederation of National Trade Unions shop steward at the Rona home improvement big-box store in Anjou, told the Militant May 9. The 172 union members walked out…


Correction

Vol. 88/No. 21 - May 27, 2024

In issue no. 20, the headline “Railroad, port workers in Canada vote to go on strike” was incorrect. Montreal port workers overwhelmingly rejected the bosses’ contract offer but unlike the rail workers they have not yet taken a vote to…


Unionists rally on May Day to boost workers’ struggles

Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024

Hotel workers and other unionists across the country took the May Day workers’ holiday to hold marches and rallies marking strikes and other fights with the bosses. Below are a few examples. Over 1,000 D.C. hotel workers march on May…


Working people in Iran oppose crackdown on rights, attacks on Israel

Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024
Striking truck drivers protest at Merhan Iran-Iraq border crossing May 6, part of nationwide actions. Banner says, “Job security is equal to life security.” Workers in Iran pay the price for bourgeois clerical regime’s foreign military adventures.

While the reactionary bourgeois-clerical regime in Iran has tried to mount large demonstrations in solidarity with Hamas since its Oct. 7 pogrom against Jews in Israel — a massacre planned and carried out in close collaboration with Tehran — turnout…