Agency workers walk out, join refuse workers strike

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025
U.K. refuse workers rally in Birmingham Dec. 1. Agency workers hired as strikebreakers are now joining the strike.

BIRMINGHAM, England — Over 200 striking refuse workers and supporters rallied Dec. 1 at the Smithfield waste depot near the city center here to celebrate their reinforcement by dozens of workers employed by the Job & Talent temp agency. Chanting…


50,000 protest gov’t attack on unions, rights in Quebec

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025
Over 50,000 joined union-sponsored demonstration in Montreal Nov. 29 to protest new laws pushed by Quebec government, a frontal attack on right to strike, other political rights.

MONTREAL — More than 50,000 working people took part in a large union federation-sponsored demonstration here Nov. 29, protesting a series of new laws either adopted or proposed by the Coalition for the Future of Quebec (CAQ) government of Premier…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025

December 11, 2000 HAVANA — During the Second World Conference of Friendship and Solidarity with Cuba, held here Nov. 10-14, Vilma Espín, president of the Cuban Federation of Women (FMC), led a discussion with more than 50 participants. “As women…


Ukraine fights to defend itself, US gov’t talks deal with Putin

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025
Nataliia Naumova, 70, right, recovers from FPV drone attack in Kherson hospital, Ukraine, Nov. 3. Russian drone operators conduct “human safaris” on Ukrainian civilians in Kherson.

Moscow’s murderous war on Ukraine is centered on attacks on civilians in the country’s cities today. In Kherson, Russian President Vladimir Putin is retaliating against working people for rising up against Moscow’s occupation. Russian forces are using new FPV —…


US hands off Venezuela!

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025

Working people in the United States and worldwide should help build opposition and protests against the escalating threats by Washington — with bipartisan support — against Venezuela’s sovereignty and its government. We should protest the crude disregard for human life…


Defend Israel’s right to exist as a refuge from Jew-hatred, pogroms

Defend Palestinians in Gaza from Hamas!
Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025
Segev Kalfon, left, in helicopter Oct. 14, free after 738 days as hostage. Like other Israeli prisoners of Hamas, he speaks out about physical, sexual and mental torture inflicted on him.

The tenuous ceasefire imposed in Gaza by Washington led to the release of the remaining hostages seized by Hamas during its Oct. 7, 2023, anti-Jewish pogrom in Israel, except for two bodies not yet recovered. Nothing else in Israel’s war…


As polarization in Mexico deepens, US acts to increase military weight

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025
Under an initially undisclosed covert program begun by the Joseph Biden administration, the CIA is flying unmanned aerial vehicles, like the MQ-9 Reaper drone, above, deep into sovereign Mexican airspace to gather intelligence on drug-smuggling operations there.

Jew-hatred reared its ugly head during Nov. 15 demonstrations in Mexico City charging the government of President Claudia Sheinbaum with corruption and ties to organized crime. During clashes between police and protesters, the doors of the Supreme Court building in…


As holidays loom, workers face debt, exorbitant prices, economic squeeze

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025

After nearly five years of persistent high prices, with the costs for rent, electricity, health care and more up at least 25% since 2020, class differentiations are sharpening. The working class faces increasing difficulties making ends meet, while the capitalist…


Fight to defend unions, political rights in Quebec

Vol. 89/No. 44 - December 8, 2025
Kruger packaging plant workers on strike in Montreal Nov. 21. Labor movement rally Nov. 29 to protest Quebec government attacks on unions, political rights as economic crisis deepens.

MONTREAL — Quebec’s four main union federations and five other unions are organizing to bring thousands of unionists to a mass united rally in Montreal Nov. 29. They are protesting a whole series of laws either already adopted or proposed…


US rulers look to dominate region as Latin America drug trade grows

Vol. 89/No. 44 - December 8, 2025
Trinidadian fishermen are battered by Washington’s deadly military attacks in its “anti-narcoterrorism” campaign against Venezuela, meant to increase U.S. rulers’ hold on the region.

In the midst of Washington’s push to reassert its military domination in Latin America and the Caribbean, voters in Ecuador delivered a resounding “No” vote on a government proposal to allow U.S. military bases there. In a Nov. 16 national…