Australia rally protests attack on synagogues, Jewish homes

Vol. 88/No. 49 - December 30, 2024
Rally in Sydney Dec. 15 condemns arson attack gutting Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne and harassment of congregation at city’s Great Synagogue by Hamas supporters.

SYDNEY — Members of the Jewish community here made it clear they will not be intimidated as more than 2,000 turned out for a rally Dec. 15 to condemn recent attacks on Jews and synagogues. Four days earlier, homes in…



Build solidarity with striking San Francisco hotel workers!

Vol. 88/No. 49 - December 30, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO — Some 2,500 striking hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 2, are fighting to defend health coverage won in past contract battles. As the strike enters its 13th week it’s the longest-ever hotel strike here, and the…


Milk-Bone strikers in Buffalo win broad support from fellow unionists

Vol. 88/No. 49 - December 30, 2024

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The 165 members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 36G continue to win broad support in their strike against Milk-Bone in Buffalo, New York. The workers walked out Oct. 28 after the company, owned…


Judge upholds free speech in Uhuru 3 case

Vol. 88/No. 49 - December 30, 2024

MIAMI — The sentencing hearing for the Uhuru 3, leaders and supporters of the African People’s Socialist Party framed up on charges of conspiring to act as agents of Moscow, was held Dec. 16 at the federal courthouse in Tampa.…



Iran workers strike, protest, amid deepening crisis

Vol. 88/No. 49 - December 30, 2024

The blows Israeli forces have dealt to the capitalist rulers in Tehran and its “axis of resistance” have provoked unprecedented open debate and discussion in Iran, accelerated by the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. Working people increasingly oppose the…


Greetings to fellow workers behind bars

Vol. 88/No. 49 - December 30, 2024

Holiday greetings to fellow workers behind bars! The Militant will continue telling the truth about what workers face on either side of prison walls and spreading the word about our common struggles. The dog-eat-dog capitalist rulers in the U.S. claim…


Israeli army command refused to wake Netanyahu as Hamas pogrom loomed

Vol. 88/No. 49 - December 30, 2024

A year and a half before Hamas and Tehran launched their murderous Oct. 7, 2023, pogrom, the Israel Defense Forces Military Intelligence Directorate obtained a 40-page Hamas document. It “laid out almost exactly how Hamas eventually wound up carrying out…


Workers and farmers in Indonesia protest gov’t attacks

Vol. 88/No. 49 - December 30, 2024
Militant correspondent Steve Penner, left, meets with representatives of Confederation of Indonesia People’s Movement in Jakarta Nov. 12. General Secretary Anwar Sastro Ma’ruf is second from right.

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Thousands of workers joined demonstrations here in Indonesia’s capital city Oct. 24 and across the country in the following days. The actions protested anti-labor measures in the Omnibus Law imposed in 2020 by former President Joko Widodo…