The fight for rights of women, women workers in Indonesia

Vol. 89/No. 1 - January 13, 2025
Organizations representing women workers met Nov. 11 at the offices of Kalyanamitra, a women’s rights organization. Speaking at left is Ika Agustina, the group’s executive director.

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Supporters of women’s rights joined a mass labor rally here Oct. 24 protesting new anti-labor measures in a law adopted by the government. Some of its measures hit women especially hard, including extending the maximum overtime hours…



SF hotel workers approve new contract, end 3-month strike

Vol. 89/No. 1 - January 13, 2025

SAN FRANCISCO — After 93 days on the picket line, UNITE HERE Local 2 union members at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square voted Dec. 24 to ratify a new contract by 99.4%, ending the longest hotel strike in the…


Political crisis deepens in South Korea

Vol. 89/No. 1 - January 13, 2025

In the deadliest air disaster on South Korean soil, a Jeju Air passenger jet crashed at Muan International Airport Dec. 29, killing all but two of the 181 people on board. This has added to the escalating political crisis facing…



Overthrow of Assad’s tyranny opens space for working people

Vol. 89/No. 1 - January 13, 2025
Huge crowd at New Year’s Eve celebration in Damascus, Syria, as millions across country marked fall of Assad family’s oppressive 50-year rule. Working people have high expectations as thousands were freed from Assad’s prisons and space has opened to fight for their interests.

The overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad dictatorship in Syria has left in tatters much of the “axis of resistance” organized by Iran’s capitalist rulers to expand their power across the Middle East and to wipe out Israel. This is a…


Daily mass protests in Georgia oppose pro-Moscow course

Vol. 89/No. 1 - January 13, 2025

Weeks of mass street demonstrations continue across the country of Georgia protesting the authoritarian pro-Moscow government led by the Georgian Dream party. Protesters are demanding a rerun of the October parliamentary elections, which they insist were rigged. Daily actions have…


Milk-Bone strike, labor solidarity win new contract, strengthen union

Vol. 89/No. 1 - January 13, 2025

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The 165 members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 36G at J.M. Smucker’s Milk-Bone factory here are scheduled to return to work Jan. 2 after seven weeks on strike. Workers voted in their majority…


Iran: Shopkeepers, truckers protest soaring prices

Vol. 89/No. 1 - January 13, 2025
Iran: Shopkeepers, truckers protest soaring prices

Hundreds of shopkeepers at several bazaars in Tehran, above, shut down their stalls Dec. 29 and protested over soaring prices, skyrocketing rents, raw material shortages and government disdain. The protest began with fabric merchants and shoemakers and spread. The plummeting…


SWP, ‘Militant’ campaign to discuss shifts in world politics

Vol. 89/No. 1 - January 13, 2025
“I don’t like Democrats or Republicans,” truck driver Victor Torres, right, told SWP members Gerardo Sánchez and Alyson Kennedy in Euless, Texas, Dec. 29. “They blame immigrants for problems.” He got a Militant subscription and The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us.

Recent political developments shaking world politics have stirred discussions among workers about a road forward, from the advances made by Israel in dealing blows to Hamas, Hezbollah and the rulers in Tehran; the fall of the Bashar al-Assad tyranny in…