What was the Holocaust?

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023

The over 1,200 Jews slaughtered in the Oct. 7 Tehran-backed Hamas pogrom against Jews in Israel was the largest number of Jews killed in a single day since the Nazi Holocaust in the second imperialist world war. Some 3,000 more…


Democrats tout ‘Bidenomics’ as workers face job losses, inflation

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023

The Joseph Biden administration, his 2024 campaign spin doctors and the liberal media insist inflation is dropping to “acceptable” levels. But the conditions working people face are anything but “acceptable.” It’s not just grocery prices that keep going up, but…



Rail workers rally, demand paid sick leave

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023
Rail workers rally outside Indiana Harbor Belt railroad office in Hammond, Indiana, Nov. 15 to demand bosses agree to provide 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…


Defend independence of Ukraine!
No to the US gov’t push for ‘peace’

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023
Maria Andreeva holds Moscow protest against Putin’s war on Ukraine.

The U.S. rulers’ response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, like their response to all events worldwide, has always been to advance their own strategic economic, political and military interests, not those of the Ukrainian people. Their aim is to restrict…


Refuse workers strike continues, bosses’ move for injunction fails

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023

WARRINGTON, England — Labour Party-led local authorities failed in their attempt to use the courts to break the strike that began Oct. 3 by over 70 Unite-organized refuse collectors here. Workers recently voted to continue their strike into December. Union…


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…


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…