Starbucks workers strike for more hours and wage raise

Vol. 89/No. 46 - December 22, 2025

SEATTLE — The Starbucks Workers United union continues to mount strike picket lines Monday to Friday at three stores in this area and in cities across the country. The strike began at 120 stores Nov. 13, hitting the company in…


Holiday greetings to readers behind bars!

Vol. 89/No. 46 - December 22, 2025

Holiday greetings to our readers behind bars! The 1.8 million people incarcerated in the U.S. are overwhelmingly part of the working class. The defense of their rights and their ability to have unfettered access to the news and politics of…



Working-class resistance boosts sales at Montreal book fair

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025

MONTREAL — Pathfinder Books, which features books by leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and other revolutionaries worldwide, from Fidel Castro to Russian revolutionaries V.I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky, mounted a sizable stand at the Nov. 19-23 Salon du livre…


Bolshevik Revolution showed the road forward for working people

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025
Workers meeting in a factory during 1917 Russian Revolution. The victory of the Bolshevik-led socialist revolution inspired millions worldwide to build communist parties, including in U.S.

Nov. 7 marked the 108th anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, led by V.I. Lenin. That powerful revolution showed workers can take political power into our own hands, and showed the kind of revolutionary working-class political party that is needed.…


G20 meeting exposes growing fight by rival capitalist rulers

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025
Vast disparities between social classes counterposed in Johannesburg, 2016. Claiming to fight “inequality emergency,” some G20 forces attack Washington’s place as top imperialist power

Mounting conflicts between the world’s rival capitalist powers over economic supremacy, political domination and the threat of new wars were exposed at the Nov. 22-23 G20 summit. Washington refused to attend, while the governments of Brazil and host nation South…


Hong Kong catastrophe: capitalist greed, gov’t disdain

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025

LONDON — A catastrophic fire at Hong Kong’s Wang Fuk Court complex left at least 159 dead, with dozens of people still missing as of Dec. 3. The inferno began at the high-rise apartments Nov. 26 and has drawn comparisons…


Reactionary jihadi rebels mount blockade of Bamako, Mali capital

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025
Islamist rebels aim to topple military government in Mali, impose Sharia law on toilers there.

Bamako, the capital of Mali, with 4 million people, is being choked off by a blockade imposed by Islamist rebels, preventing fuel, food and other goods from getting to the city, in an effort to bring down Mali’s military government.…


Cuban ambassador: ‘US moving to attack Venezuela’

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025
Luis Morejón Rodríguez, Cuba’s ambassador to New Zealand, right, and author Robert Bartholomew at program in Auckland Nov. 23. “Cuba, other countries of Latin America, face real challenges as U.S. government moves to take military action in Venezuela,” Morejón said.

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — “Cuba and other countries of Latin America are facing real challenges today, as the U.S. government moves to take military action against Venezuela,” Luis Morejón Rodríguez, Cuba’s ambassador to New Zealand, told a meeting of 55…


NJ townspeople win chef’s release from ICE lockup

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025

ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, N.J. — Ruperto Vicens, a chef and co-owner of a popular Mexican restaurant here, was released from Newark Delaney Hall Detention Center Nov. 18, following a campaign on his behalf that included rallies in this town of some…