UAW members debate, vote up contract, more fights to come

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023
Chanting, “No deal? No wheels!” members of United Auto Workers Local 551 rallied at their union hall Oct. 7 in Chicago. The 4,600 workers at Ford there went on strike Sept. 29, bringing the total to 25,000 workers on strike against the Big Three auto companies in 21 states.

The United Auto Workers announced Nov. 20 that its members at Ford, General Motors and Stellantis had voted up new contracts after strikes at the Big Three’s assembly plants, parts production sites and distribution centers. They cover over 146,000 autoworkers.…


Defeat of Hamas, fight against Jew-hatred are union business

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023

Everything the bosses and their governments do is aimed at protecting their investments, markets and profits and their cutthroat national interests against rival capitalist regimes. Workers have an opposite class standpoint — we are one international class of toilers with…


25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023

December 21, 1998 Working people should condemn the government probes into the affairs of NY District Council 37 of AFSCME, which has nothing to do with “rooting out corruption” among the union officialdom. This provocative interference into the affairs of…


Correction

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023

In the article, “Working people in Ukraine fight genocidal war waged by Putin,” in Militant issue no. 46, Russia’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, is quoted as boasting 700,000 Ukrainian children have been taken to Russia. Kyiv authorities give…


Letters

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023

Roots of Hamas ‘eye-opening’ The Militant article by Terry Evans on the pro-Hitler roots of Hamas is eye-opening, particularly the role played by the Arab Higher Executive Committee of Palestine in 1948. This group organized anti-Jewish militias using “German POWs…


Communist League finds interest at London protest against Hamas

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023

LONDON — Over 200 people rallied outside government offices at Whitehall Dec. 3 to protest the brutal violence and rape Hamas thugs meted out to women during their Oct. 7 pogrom in Israel. Many pointed to the failure of most…


Thousands rally against Jew-hatred in Ottawa

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023
Thousands rally against Jew-hatred in Ottawa.

OTTAWA, Ontario — Thousands rallied in the snow here in Canada’s capital city Dec. 4 to support Israel’s right to defend itself against the genocidal assaults of Hamas and to oppose the rise in violent Jew-hating attacks in Canada. Some…


2013 Maidan uprising marked turning point in Ukraine

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023

Ten years ago, on Dec. 6 and 8, 2013, tens of thousands of workers and other Ukrainians from all over the country rallied in Kyiv, the country’s capital, joining the battle to oust the pro-Moscow government of Viktor Yanukovych. The…


Rail workers rally, demand paid sick leave

Dozens of track workers, members of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes union, held two protests Nov. 15 — one outside the headquarters of the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad in Hammond, Indiana, and the other at the U.S. offices…


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…