Exhibit: Bolshevik Revolution unleashed Ukraine culture

Vol. 89/No. 4 - February 3, 2025

LONDON — How the 1905 and 1917 revolutions in Russia affected the development of modern art and culture in Ukraine was the focus of the exhibit “In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s.” On display here last…


Ukraine coal miners fight gov’t attacks, resist Moscow’s war

Vol. 89/No. 4 - February 3, 2025
Members of Independent Trade Union of Mineworkers of Ukraine from Lviv Coal State Enterprise protest at Ministry of Energy in Kyiv Aug. 1 demanding payment of wage arrears.

Ukrainian working people are the heart and soul of the fight to defend their country’s sovereignty against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s murderous invasion. Ukrainian workers also bear the biggest effects of the economic burden of the war on production, transportation…


UK food workers strike at Princes for higher wages

Vol. 89/No. 4 - February 3, 2025
Members of Unite union on strike against Princes food company picket plant in Long Sutton, England, Jan. 14 in strike for pay raise. Fellow unionists on strike against Bakkavor for nearly four months joined in solidarity.

LONG SUTTON, England — Some 300 members of Unite, the union at the Princes food company here, walked out Jan. 7. Princes produces canned fish, meat, vegetables, soft drinks and pickles. Their action was part of a series of strikes,…


True Jimmy Carter: Defender of US capitalist rule, wars

Vol. 89/No. 4 - February 3, 2025

The bourgeois press, particularly the liberal-run media, has gone to great lengths to portray recently deceased Democratic Party politician and former President James Earl Carter Jr. as a “humanitarian” and “peacemaker.” Carter was the 39th president, the executive officer for…


Capitalist rule turned LA fires into a social catastrophe

Vol. 89/No. 4 - February 3, 2025

Statement by Laura Garza, organizer of the Los Angeles Socialist Workers Party, Jan. 20. The dog-eat-dog capitalist system is incapable of addressing the crisis now facing working people, small-business owners and thousands of others in the aftermath of the deadly…


Communist League campaigns amid political crisis in Canada

Vol. 89/No. 4 - February 3, 2025
Philippe Tessier, one of the Communist League’s two candidates for Parliament from Montreal, speaks in defense of Ukraine’s sovereignty in Toronto March 2022, weeks after Russia’s invasion.

MONTREAL — “At the very moment [Canada] needs stable and credible leadership” — as a trade conflict with Washington is imminent — “it is instead wracked by the prolonged death throes of a minority government,” complained the editors of the…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 89/No. 4 - February 3, 2025

January 31, 2000 COLUMBIA, S.C. — Tens of thousands marched through the streets here demanding the Confederate battle flag no longer be flown over the capitol building. The marchers wound through the streets chanting, “We’re fired up! Take it Down!”…


Workers on weekslong strike at IKEA warehouse in Maryland

Vol. 89/No. 03 - January 27, 2025
IAM members picket IKEA distribution center in Perryville, Maryland, Jan. 13. Nearly 320 have been on strike since Nov. 15 fighting to protect seniority, against boss favoritism.

PERRYVILLE, Md. — Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local Lodge I-460 have been on strike at the IKEA distribution center here since Nov. 15. Nearly 320 IAM members work at the warehouse, which distributes furniture…


Why Trump wants to take over Greenland, the Panama Canal

Vol. 89/No. 03 - January 27, 2025
A U.S. ballistic missile early warning and satellite surveillance system at U.S. Pituffik Space Base in Greenland. Washington seeks greater control over Greenland as competition with Beijing and Moscow grows for strategic bases and trade routes in the Arctic region.

President-elect Donald Trump has announced he intends to pursue gaining control over Greenland, as well as the Panama Canal, to advance the interests of the U.S. ruling class against its competitors abroad, especially Beijing and Moscow. Since Russian President Vladimir…


Daily protests continue against pro-Moscow gov’t in Georgia

Vol. 89/No. 03 - January 27, 2025
Tens of thousands of protesters celebrate New Year’s Eve in Tbilisi, Georgia. They are demanding new national elections, defending Ukraine’s sovereignty against Moscow’s invasion.

Protesters demanding a new presidential election continue to take to the streets in Georgia. The actions began Nov. 28 after the pro-Moscow Georgian Dream party government announced plans to shelve talks on joining the European Union until at least 2028.…