Ontario school workers step up fight for wage increases

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022
In Ontario, Canada, striking school workers, above, won solidarity, forced provincial government to junk anti-strike law. Fight has inspired working people, boosted fights by other unions.

MONTREAL — The Canadian Union of Public Employees continues to mobilize and gain widespread solidarity in the fight to win significant wage raises for its 55,000 members working in public education support jobs in Ontario and set an example of…


US rail unions set strike date over jobs, schedules, safety

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022
Members of Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way protest in 2022 in Nebraska. Rail workers look to continue fight for bigger crews, livable work schedules, more training for new hires.

LINCOLN, Neb. — Over 115,000 rail union members are counting down to early December to see if they’ll go out on strike in their ongoing fight to defend their jobs, safety and health from assault by the rail bosses. And…


‘Militant’, SWP go over the top in fall campaigns

Vol. 86/No. 44 - November 28, 2022
SWP campaigner Josefina Otero talks with Rafael Ramirez at truck stop outside Fort Worth, Texas, Sept. 27, about importance of fight to defend constitutional rights in face of FBI attacks.

Members of the Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K. met their goals, winning 1,352 new readers to the Militant  and getting out 1,503 books by SWP leaders and other revolutionaries during the eight-week international…


Defend Ukraine independence! Russian soldiers oppose Putin’s war

Vol. 86/No. 43 - November 21, 2022
Thousands of Russian conscript soldiers confront Gen. Kirill Kulakov, in hat, at Kazan training base in southwest Russia. They protested treatment by the brass, refused to be deployed to front lines. Chants included, “Get out of here!” “Shame on you!” “Down with Putin’s regime!”

Determined to defend their country’s sovereignty, working people in Ukraine have pushed back assaults by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces. The bloody consequences of the war are fueling the struggle between working people and Putin’s capitalist government, with resistance growing…


For 30th time, UN denounces US gov’t embargo on Cuba

Vol. 86/No. 43 - November 21, 2022
Protesters march from Times Square to United Nations building in New York Oct. 29 demanding an end to Washington’s economic, financial and trade war against Cuba.

UNITED NATIONS — For the 30th time since 1992, the United Nations General Assembly Nov. 3 voted overwhelmingly to call for “ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.” The resolution passed…


Expand the reach of Socialist Workers Party, the ‘Militant’

Vol. 86/No. 43 - November 21, 2022
Nana and Tyler McChristian talk with SWP member Leroy Watson, right, in Lake Station, Indiana, Oct. 30. “The Militant sounds like just what we need,” Nana said, and asked for extra subscription forms. “I’ve got friends who work in the steel mill who will be interested.”

Socialist Workers Party candidates and supporters used the final days before the Nov. 8 elections to discuss with fellow working people what we can do together to stand up to bosses’ moves to push the deepening capitalist crisis onto our…


The Jewish question can only be resolved by the working class

Vol. 86/No. 43 - November 21, 2022
Socialist Workers Party called November 1938 protest in New York demanding Washington open entry to the U.S. to Jewish refugees. Action was called after Kristallnacht, when Nazi storm troopers rounded up 30,000 Jews, destroyed Jewish businesses, synagogues in Germany.

The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation by Abram Leon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. Leon was won from Zionism to Marxism by supporters of Leon Trotsky. He wrote the book while a leader of the…



25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 86/No. 43 - November 21, 2022

November 24, 1997 HAVANA — “In the present international conditions, we reaffirm that socialism is a necessity,” said Cuban leader José Ramón Balaguer to the Oct. 21-23 international workshop here on “Socialism as the 21st Century Approaches.” “The contradiction between…