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…


Liberals, left hail Mangione’s killing of health care CEO

Vol. 88/No. 49 - December 30, 2024

NEW YORK — After staking out the site, an armed attacker waited in the early morning here Dec. 4 until Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, walked by on his way to a work conference. The gunman approached him from…


Works by SWP leaders find keen interest at Guadalajara book fair

Vol. 88/No. 49 - December 30, 2024
Jacob Perasso, SWP member and volunteer at Pathfinder booth, discusses Pathfinder books with two call center workers at Guadalajara International Book Fair in Mexico Dec. 4.

GUADALAJARA, Mexico — Pointing to books on Cuba’s socialist revolution, the fight for women’s emancipation and titles by Karl Marx, Libertad Segura Meza said she was surprised to see so many books on working-class politics. The high school teacher was…


Back Ukraine’s fight to repel Moscow’s invasion

Vol. 88/No. 49 - December 30, 2024

Russian President Vladimir Putin is driving to conquer more territory in Ukraine’s southeast despite the staggering loss of the lives and limbs of Russian workers in uniform. Moscow’s bombardment of Ukraine’s cities and power grid continues to strike blows at…