Georgia Teamsters win new contract at Republic Services

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025

CUMMING, Georgia — After 100 days on strike against the giant national waste hauling company Republic Services, some 30 Teamsters Local 728 members finally returned to work Oct. 16 after winning a new contract. They were the last group of…


Houston hotel workers win raises, limits on workload, end strike

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025
Members of UNITE HERE Local 23 celebrate on Oct. 10 after making gains in 40-day strike against Hilton-Americas Houston bosses. Their strike was the first ever hotel strike in Texas.

FORT WORTH, Texas — After a 40-day strike against Hilton Americas-Houston, members of UNITE HERE Local 23 announced Oct. 10 they had won a $20 hourly minimum wage for housekeepers, laundry attendants and stewards, and increases to $22 by the…


SWP forum: ‘There is no peace in Gaza’

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025
Amin al-Husseini, grand mufti of Jerusalem, with Adolf Hitler in Berlin, November 1941, discussing collaboration in the Holocaust. Al-Husseini organized pogroms in British-ruled Palestine.

SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — “There is no peace in Gaza today,” Socialist Workers Party National Committee member Norton Sandler told a well-attended Militant Labor Forum here Oct. 17. Sandler is the party’s candidate for governor of California. “The Militant,” he…


US hands off Venezuela and Cuba!

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025

Washington’s bombing of boats it claims are running drugs off the coast of Venezuela, and its threats to overthrow the Nicolás Maduro government, are an attack on the country’s national sovereignty. They take place as conflicts between Washington and Beijing…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025

October 30, 2000 BENTON, Illinois — Nearly 500 people, mostly retired members of the United Mine Workers of America and their wives, attended a meeting here Oct. 13 to demand the government keep its promise to coal miners to provide…





‘Militant’ battles bans by prisons in Missouri, Kansas

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025

The Militant is fighting to reverse the banning of issues of the paper by the Lansing state prison in Kansas and of issue no. 28 by the Missouri Department of Corrections. What’s involved is a clear violation of prisoners’ constitutional…


Mandela granddaughters in Israel: ‘People killed for being Jewish’

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025
Nelson Mandela’s granddaughters Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela (center) and Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway at aid site in Gaza during visit to Israel. “Seeing how families were murdered for simply being Jewish will stay with us forever,” Dlamini-Manaway said.

They were “glued to the television” Oct. 13 when Hamas released the hostages, Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway and Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela told the South African Jewish Report. Both are granddaughters of Nelson Mandela, the central leader of the fight that brought down apartheid…