1,300 nurses in Everett strike over safety, patients’ care

Vol. 87/No. 46 - December 11, 2023

EVERETT, Wash. — Some 1,300 nurses here, members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 3000, forced Providence Regional Medical Center, one of Snohomish County’s largest hospitals, back to the bargaining table after an around-the-clock strike Nov. 14-19. The company…



Joliet nurses strike for higher pay, increased staffing

Vol. 87/No. 46 - December 11, 2023

JOLIET, Ill. — Over 500 Illinois Nurses Association union members began a two-day strike here Nov. 21, demanding increased staffing and higher wages. A walkout in August failed to win a new contract. “We want to provide safe, quality care…


Women in Ukraine win right to work in the country’s coal mines

Vol. 87/No. 46 - December 11, 2023
Natalia and Krystyna take elevator Nov. 17 to work underground in the Pavlohradska coal mine in eastern Ukraine. This is first time in decades women won right to work down in the mines.

More than 100 women are today working underground at the Pavlohradska coal mine in southeastern Ukraine. This is the first time that women have been hired to work underground since the counterrevolutionary regime of Joseph Stalin barred women from doing…


Bosses at ‘assisted living’ use add on fees to boost profits

Vol. 87/No. 46 - December 11, 2023

Increasing numbers of older workers who have turned to assisted-living facilities for housing and care are unable to cover the huge costs and increasing “add on” fees the profit-hungry bosses impose on them. This reflects the social and moral crisis…


Kurdish teachers strike, march on Baghdad for unpaid wages

Vol. 87/No. 46 - December 11, 2023

Over 58,000 Kurdish teachers in Sulaimaniyah province have been on strike for back wages for more than two months in the longest teachers strike in the history of Kurdistan, putting nearly a million students out of school. More than 1,000…


Russians in NY protest Moscow’s genocidal war on Ukraine

Vol. 87/No. 46 - December 11, 2023
Russian emigres protest in New York Nov. 26 commemorating the Holodomor, “death by starvation,” imposed by Joseph Stalin regime that killed 4 million people in Ukraine in 1932-33.

NEW YORK — Holding signs like “Genocide by famine: The Ukrainian Holodomor, 1932-1933” and “We stand with Ukraine,” a group of largely Russian emigres gathered in Times Square here Nov. 26 to protest the famine Joseph Stalin’s counterrevolutionary regime imposed…


‘Jewish Question’ draws interest at Montreal book fair

Vol. 87/No. 46 - December 11, 2023

Pathfinder Press was among 650 publishing houses setting up booths at the Salon du Livre in Montreal, which was attended by some 88,000 visitors Nov. 22-26. “With all the action this week, it was a very rich experience,” said Josette…


Sugarcane cutters in Dominican Republic fight for raise, pensions

Vol. 87/No. 46 - December 11, 2023
Militant reporters from the U.S. and Canada, right, visited the Batey Marchena sugarcane community in La Romana province, Dominican Republic, Nov. 11. Left, Jesús Núñez, national coordinator of Sugarcane Workers Union, describes their fight for pensions, health care, raises.

LA ROMANA, Dominican Republic — “The gains we have made have been because of our mobilizations in the streets,” Jesús Núñez, national coordinator of the Sugarcane Workers Union (UTC), told the Militant. He described their yearslong fight to win pensions,…


Thousands march in London against Jew-hatred

Vol. 87/No. 46 - December 11, 2023

LONDON — Tens of thousands joined a march and rally here Nov. 26, the first nationwide protest in the United Kingdom against Jew-hatred since the Oct. 7 pogrom in Israel carried out by Tehran-backed Hamas. The action was called by…