Culture flourishes in Ukraine while artists, actors are jailed in Russia

Vol. 89/No. 1 - January 13, 2025
Kyiv theater director and actor Yevhen Nyshchuk addresses audience before performance to thank them for their commitment. Like many of his colleagues, he volunteered for the army to defend Ukraine from Moscow’s 2022 invasion and gets leave from the front to perform.

Working people in Ukraine have tenaciously defended their country’s sovereignty against almost three years of an all-out invasion by the Vladimir Putin regime in Moscow. As part of conducting this war, Putin has carried out a systematic and brutal assault…


Montreal hotel workers fight union-busting drive

Vol. 89/No. 1 - January 13, 2025
Locked-out hotel workers picket Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal Dec. 30 in their fight for new contract. Rail workers, other unionists have joined picket line in solidarity.

MONTREAL — The picket line maintained by 600 locked-out workers at Quebec’s largest hotel, Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth, remains spirited in face of the decision by the bosses to close this hotel here over the Christmas to New Year’s holiday…


Israel’s blows to Tehran, allies boost fight
against Jew-hatred

Vol. 89/No. 1 - January 13, 2025

Israeli forces have dealt severe blows to Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza and to Tehran’s anti-aircraft defense system. These victories were possible because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to give in to pressure by President Joseph Biden’s administration…


Flight attendants demonstrate against two-tiered employment

Vol. 89/No. 1 - January 13, 2025

FORT WORTH, Texas — Members of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA gathered outside Terminal E at Dallas-Fort Worth airport Dec. 17 to advance their fight for a new contract. They work at PSA Airlines, which, as union flight attendant Jeanne…




SWP, ‘Militant’ campaign to discuss shifts in world politics

Vol. 89/No. 1 - January 13, 2025
“I don’t like Democrats or Republicans,” truck driver Victor Torres, right, told SWP members Gerardo Sánchez and Alyson Kennedy in Euless, Texas, Dec. 29. “They blame immigrants for problems.” He got a Militant subscription and The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us.

Recent political developments shaking world politics have stirred discussions among workers about a road forward, from the advances made by Israel in dealing blows to Hamas, Hezbollah and the rulers in Tehran; the fall of the Bashar al-Assad tyranny in…


Milk-Bone strike, labor solidarity win new contract, strengthen union

Vol. 89/No. 1 - January 13, 2025

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The 165 members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 36G at J.M. Smucker’s Milk-Bone factory here are scheduled to return to work Jan. 2 after seven weeks on strike. Workers voted in their majority…