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.

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

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…


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

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 —…


editorial

US hands off Venezuela!

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!
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…



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US out of the Middle East!

Several people were killed by Iranian missile strike in Beit Shemesh, Israel, March 1. Israel’s defensive war aims to prevent Tehran launching a nuclear Holocaust to wipe out Jews, Israel.
The following statement was released March 1, 2026, by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist…










Cuba and Chernobyl

This Cuban documentary produced in 2006 tells the story of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine and Cuba’s exemplary internationalist medical program that treated more than 25,000 victims.