Flight attendants demonstrate against two-tiered employment

Vol. 89/No. 1 - January 13, 2025

FORT WORTH, Texas — Members of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA gathered outside Terminal E at Dallas-Fort Worth airport Dec. 17 to advance their fight for a new contract. They work at PSA Airlines, which, as union flight attendant Jeanne…


Amazon drivers organize strike action in four states

Vol. 89/No. 1 - January 13, 2025

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — “Working here made me want to get involved in fighting for a union,” Aaron Nipper, an Amazon delivery driver, told the Militant here Dec. 19, as some 20 drivers and supporters from the Teamsters union picketed outside…


Quebec Amazon workers rally for first contract

Vol. 89/No. 1 - January 13, 2025

LAVAL, Quebec — Dozens of workers, members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions, rallied at Canada’s only unionized Amazon warehouse Dec. 23 to demand their first contract. Supporters from other unions joined them in solidarity here, just northwest of…


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…