Fight against Jew-hatred crucial for Bolshevik victory in civil war

Vol. 89/No. 32 - September 15, 2025
Workers turn out to greet Red Army soldiers who liberated Odesa, Ukraine — which had the largest Jewish population in czarist Russia — from counterrevolutionary forces in 1919. By the end of the civil war in 1921, the Red Army had put an end to anti-Jewish pogroms.

In the Russian Revolution and its defense against imperialist attack and capitalist-led civil war afterward, the V.I. Lenin-led Bolshevik Party put the fight against Jew-hatred at the center of its proletarian internationalist course. Today, reactionary leaders in the Ukraine government’s…


Labor Day reflects growing working-class resistance

Vol. 89/No. 32 - September 15, 2025
Banner at Labor Day parade in Toronto Sept. 1 explained class reality facing Air Canada flight attendants. Their Aug. 16-19 strike continued in defiance of a federal government back-to-work order. This is the fourth strike in past year where Ottawa intervened on side of the bosses.

Labor Day marches, rallies and other events across North America reflected the step up in union battles today and the thirst of union members for a working-class road forward. Some 40 Air Canada flight attendants, part of the 10,000 Canadian…


Workers bear brunt of today’s capitalist crisis

Vol. 89/No. 32 - September 15, 2025

The capitalist economic crisis unfolding today is bearing down hardest on working-class families. High prices for basic necessities, including groceries, rent, electricity, medical care, child care, care for the elderly and more make it difficult to make ends meet. Under…


UAW on strike at GE Aerospace in Ohio and Kentucky

Vol. 89/No. 32 - September 15, 2025

EVENDALE, Ohio — More than 600 members of United Auto Workers Local 647 went on strike Aug. 28 against GE Aerospace here and across the Ohio River in Erlanger, Kentucky. Workers at the Evendale plant assemble engines used in marine…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 32 - September 15, 2025

September 11, 2000 Through a militant strike against telecommunications giant Verizon, some 86,000 workers emerged victorious after two and a half weeks. Workers won a central demand—removing obstacles to the union’s ability to organize the fast-growing wireless division of the…



For-profit nursing homes, cuts at VA pose social disaster

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025

Patients in thousands of nursing homes across the U.S. are denied essential medical care and assistance as the wealthy property owners prioritize maximizing their profits at the expense of the elderly and most vulnerable. Severe short staffing in these facilities,…


Tariff battles advance imperialist drive toward new wars

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025

President Donald Trump’s tariffs on some 90 countries went into effect Aug. 7. The U.S. rulers’ aim is to strengthen their competitive edge against their rivals and expand U.S. industrial capacity as they prepare for the inevitable wars to come. …


Philadelphia flight attendants picket PSA as negotiations stall

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025

PHILADELPHIA — “What do we want? A contract! When do we want it? Now!” chanted some 35 flight attendants and their supporters at the airport here Aug. 18. Similar protests took place at PSA Airlines hubs at four other airports…


Flight attendants rally at DC, Charlotte, Dallas airports

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025
Association of Flight Attendants union members at PSA Airlines picket at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, Aug. 18 in long fight for new contract with pay for unpaid work.

ARLINGTON, Va. — Dozens of flight attendants, members of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA union at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport here, mounted a spirited picket line outside of the American Airlines terminal Aug. 18. “Some days you have to…