London Abellio Bus drivers strike against attacks on wages, conditions

Vol. 87/No. 3 - January 16, 2023

LONDON — “The strike is solid,” Jim Hart, Unite union representative at the Abellio Bus depot in Battersea, told the Militant Dec. 31. They’ve carried out 13 days of strike action since November, fighting against boss attacks on their wages…


Sutter nurses rally, end 9-day strike, vow to continue fight

Vol. 87/No. 3 - January 16, 2023
Striking nurses and supporters rally Jan. 1 outside a Sutter hospital in Oakland, California. They’re fighting for increased staffing, better working conditions, against hospital closures.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Union nurses at Sutter Alta Bates hospitals here and in Berkeley concluded a nine-day strike on New Year’s Day with rallies at both locations. Some 1,800 members of the California Nurses Association had turned down hospital bosses’…


New staff writer joins ‘Militant’

Vol. 87/No. 3 - January 16, 2023

Joining the full-time Militant writing staff is Vivian Sahner, a member of the Socialist Workers Party branch in Northern New Jersey. Sahner was the 2021 SWP candidate for lieutenant governor in New Jersey while part of the party’s national trade…


What is behind the rising tensions in the Balkans?

Vol. 87/No. 3 - January 16, 2023

As the nearly yearlong invasion of Ukraine by Moscow continues, rising tensions between Serbia, backed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Kosovo could lead to new fighting in the Balkans. The attempt by Russian President Vladimir Putin to stamp out…


Fort Worth cop convicted for killing of Atatiana Jefferson

Vol. 87/No. 2 - January 9, 2023
Hundreds have protested cop killing of Atatiana Jefferson three years ago, finally winning conviction of Aaron Dean for manslaughter. Parade in her honor in Fort Worth, Oct. 9, 2021.

FORT WORTH, Texas — Three years after he shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson in her own home, police officer Aaron Dean was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 11 years, 10 months and 12 days in prison. He will have…


Communist League: ‘Down with Canadian rulers’ Emergencies Act’

Vol. 87/No. 1 - January 2, 2023

MONTREAL — Six weeks of mandatory public hearings on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government imposition of the never-before-used Emergencies Act concluded Nov. 25. The act aimed to crush the three-week-long truckers’ “Freedom Convoy” protest in Ottawa and at border-crossing…


New ‘Till’ film misses real story of fight to overturn Jim Crow

Vol. 87/No. 2 - January 9, 2023
Some 250,000 filed by Emmett Till’s 1955 Chicago funeral, helping fuel fight against Jim Crow nationwide. Till’s mother, Mamie, spent years protesting acquittal of two racists who killed him.

“Till,” 2022, a film directed by Chinonye Chukwu, written by Michael Reilly, Keith Beauchamp, and Chinonye Chukwu, starring Danielle Deadwyler. BY ILONA GERSH If you want to learn about the powerful movement that ended the brutal Jim Crow system of…


HarperCollins strikers fight for higher wages, union rights

Vol. 87/No. 2 - January 9, 2023

NEW YORK — “We’re fighting for higher wages and union security,” Laura Harshberger, a senior production editor and chair of the bargaining unit at HarperCollins, told the Militant. Some 200 workers — hourly employees in editorial, sales, publicity, design, legal…


Counterrevolutionary coup led to US invasion of Grenada

Vol. 87/No. 2 - January 9, 2023
Fidel Castro said social program of Maurice Bishop, center, who led 1979-83 workers and farmers government in Grenada, “had support of the immense majority.” Counterrevolutionary coup in October 1983 led by Bernard Coard destroyed the revolution, led to US invasion.

To mark the anniversary of the Jan. 1, 1959, popular triumph in Cuba, the first of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January is Fidel Castro: Nothing Can Stop the Course of History. It is a wide-ranging interview by Jeffrey…


Iran protests: ‘Stop all the executions! Free prisoners!’

Actions feed divisions among capitalist rulers
Vol. 87/No. 2 - January 9, 2023
Hundreds gather in Sanandaj, in Kurdish region of Iran, to mark life of Aram Habibi Dec. 26, 40 days after he was killed by regime’s thugs. Mourners chanted, “Down with the dictatorship.”

In the face of more than 100 days of protests across the country by working people and youth, the capitalist government of Iran is suffering from deepening factional divisions over how best to proceed. The outpouring of opposition to the…