Frontier call center workers rally for wage raise, safety on the job

Vol. 89/No. 38 - October 27, 2025

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. — Two hundred Frontier customer call center workers, members of Communications Workers of America Local 9588, rallied here Sept. 28 to highlight their fight for better wages, affordable health care and safety on the job. “We need…


Calif. bread plant workers picket, demand raise, respect

Vol. 89/No. 38 - October 27, 2025

RICHMOND, Calif. — Workers picketed outside the Safeway bread plant here Oct. 5, protesting company abuse and refusal to grant union demands. The workers, members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 125, have been working under an…


Kaiser hospital workers strike for wage raise, hiring more staff

Vol. 89/No. 38 - October 27, 2025
Nurses and other health care workers picket Kaiser hospital in Los Angeles Oct. 14, first day of strike at 500 facilities in California and Hawaii, fighting for wage raise and hiring more workers.

LOS ANGELES — Over 40,000 nurses and other health care workers at Kaiser Permanente hospitals went on strike for five days starting Oct. 14. “Kaiser pushed us to the end,” Tina Chin, a physician assistant in neurosurgery, told the Militant…


Defend Israel’s right to exist as refuge from new Holocaust

Defend Palestinians in Gaza from Hamas thugs
Vol. 89/No. 38 - October 27, 2025
Hamas posted videos of its executions of Palestinians in Gaza it accused of being “collaborators” of Israel. Hamas knows it is widely hated by Palestinians in Gaza and is trying to intimidate people there to prevent them from challenging its moves to reestablish its dictatorial rule.

Trump says that Hamas thugs patrolling streets of Gaza is OK The release of the 20 remaining living hostages by Hamas — starved, tortured and brutalized for 738 days after the Jew-hating group kidnapped them during the Oct. 7, 2023,…


There is no peace! For Israel’s decisive defeat of Hamas!

Vol. 89/No. 38 - October 27, 2025

There is no “peace” in Gaza today, nor did Washington ever mean for there to be. The goal of the U.S. imperialist rulers is a “Pax Americana,” to impose their political, economic and military domination over the region — drawing…


New Syria gov’t targets Kurds, signals spread of wider conflict

Vol. 89/No. 38 - October 27, 2025

Fighting broke out Oct. 6 between Syria’s new government and Kurdish forces, which for years have controlled an autonomous region carved out in the struggle for their national rights in the oil-rich northeast of the country. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic…


Putin steps up deadly attacks on civilians all across Ukraine

Vol. 89/No. 38 - October 27, 2025

The reactionary regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin is stepping up its bombardment of Ukraine’s cities, residential areas and power supplies. Putin counts on demoralizing the Ukrainian people, enabling Moscow to conquer and assimilate them. This is despite Russia’s forces…


Socialist Workers Party, ‘Militant’ campaign expands political reach

Vol. 89/No. 38 - October 27, 2025
Tony Lane, right, SWP Pittsburgh mayoral candidate, discusses call for amnesty for immigrant workers in U.S. with Anabel Garcia, left, Edith Cardana in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, Oct. 11.

“Before the union came it was stressful working there,” said Sayre Archira, a former worker at TomaTek, a tomato processing plant in Firebaugh in California’s Central Valley. She was speaking with Socialist Workers Party members from Los Angeles and Oakland…


US rulers’ raids, deportations aim to divide workers, weaken unions

Vol. 89/No. 38 - October 27, 2025

The surge in immigration raids under President Donald Trump’s administration is aimed at deepening divisions between workers in the U.S. with papers and those without and to intensify the exploitation of all. Millions of undocumented workers have been forced into…


‘Militant’ takes on Kansas prison ban

Vol. 89/No. 38 - October 27, 2025

Authorities at the Lansing Correctional Facility, a state prison in Kansas, recently began barring Militant subscribers there from getting their paper. The Militant has launched a fight to overturn this violation of the constitutional right of workers behind bars to…