Families of Putin’s troops: ‘Bring our boys home!’

Vol. 87/No. 48 - December 25, 2023
Protest in Moscow Nov. 7 demanding troops stationed in Ukraine for over a year be rotated home. It was called by The Way Home, a group of soldiers’ mothers and wives. Relatives held placards reading, “The mobilized are not robots. They need replacement,” and “Give the children back their fathers.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin tries to disguise his attempt to conquer Ukraine and its people as a war to defend “Mother Russia” from threats by Washington and NATO. In fact his goal is to reestablish the Russian Empire, denying Ukraine…


600,000 public workers go on strike against Quebec gov’t

Vol. 87/No. 48 - December 25, 2023

MONTREAL — The Quebec government is on a collision course with some 600,000 union teachers, education support workers, nurses and health care workers, social workers and other public workers, as well as the vast majority of working people who support…


SWP campaigns widely, advancing a road forward for the working class

Vol. 87/No. 48 - December 25, 2023
Alyson Kennedy, left, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate from Texas, spoke with editor Fatimah Azeem of the Mercury, student paper at University of Texas at Dallas, Dec. 8

Members and candidates of the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Leagues in Canada, Australia and the U.K. are joining in discussions about the danger of Jew-hatred, the importance of Israel as a refuge for Jews, the struggle of the…


Defense of constitutional freedoms crucial for the working class today

Vol. 87/No. 48 - December 25, 2023

As President Joseph Biden’s reelection bid flounders, the heart of the Democratic Party’s 2024 campaign is to use the courts to stop Donald Trump’s campaign. Their legal tactics run from lawsuits aimed at ruling him off the ballot for “insurrection”…


Kindertransport — In 1938 London let a few Jewish children in

Vol. 87/No. 48 - December 25, 2023
Statue outside London train station commemorates Kindertransport children. To escape Nazi terror in Europe, for 10 months U.K. rulers let in 10,000 mainly Jewish children, but barred their families. They closed the door on millions seeking refuge from the Holocaust.

LONDON — Kindertransport, the evacuation to the U.K. of 10,000 mainly Jewish children fleeing Nazi persecution in 1938-39, is touted by capitalist politicians and the media as an example of the British government coming to the aid of the Jewish…


Former Black Panther leader Ed Poindexter dies in prison

Vol. 87/No. 48 - December 25, 2023

LINCOLN, Neb. — Former Black Panther Party leader Ed Poindexter, who was framed up and imprisoned for 53 years, died Dec. 7 in a Nebraska prison at the age of 79. In the last few years, his family and supporters…


Dominican gov’t pits workers against Haitian immigrants

Vol. 87/No. 48 - December 25, 2023
Retired Haitian sugarcane worker Ephesiel Bonel, left, holds up his identification card from formerly state-owned Río Haina Sugar Mill, often only ID these workers have. At right is Yega Fabián, another retired Haitian worker. Shirt says, “Pensions for all sugarcane workers.”

The government of President Luis Abinader in the Dominican Republic has stepped up deportations of Haitian immigrants and Dominican citizens of Haitian descent. This takes place as the May 2024 presidential election is approaching. Abinader’s campaign aims to rally support…


DHL workers in Cincinnati strike over safety, wages

Vol. 87/No. 48 - December 25, 2023
Teamsters members picket at DHL Express in Hebron, Kentucky, Dec. 9. More than 1,100 newly organized workers at DHL’s main U.S. hub struck Dec. 7 over safety, wages, dignity.

HEBRON, Ky. — More than 1,100 newly organized DHL Express workers at the delivery company’s main U.S. hub here walked out on strike Dec. 7. The airport ramp workers and tug drivers, members of Teamsters Local 100, are fighting for…


Students take on Jew-haters at Columbia University

Vol. 87/No. 48 - December 25, 2023

The actions of so-called pro-Palestine groups worldwide who hail Hamas’ murderous Oct. 7 pogrom as “a new stage in the resistance against Zionism” have sparked a rise in Jew-hatred, highly visible on college campuses. Some university administrations have responded with…


‘Washington Post’ workers hold 1-day strike over wages, jobs

Vol. 87/No. 48 - December 25, 2023
Workers at Washington Post picket Dec. 7 during one-day strike demanding wage raise and against plans by Jeff Bezos-owned paper to cut 240 jobs — 10% of the workforce.

WASHINGTON — Over 700 Washington Post reporters, editors, copy editors, clerical workers and employees in the paper’s commercial and advertising departments staged a one-day strike Dec. 7. It was the largest labor protest at the company since a bitter strike…