25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 86/No. 38 - October 17, 2022

October 20, 1997 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Tens of thousands of workers and youth marched here Oct. 1 as part of a 24-hour general strike to protest the proposed sale of the Puerto Rico Telephone Co. One of the…


Kyiv gains ground in east, south Support Ukraine independence!

Putin claims he has ‘annexed’ Ukraine provinces
Vol. 86/No. 38 - October 17, 2022
At Moscow’s Tretyakovskaya metro station Sept. 15, Pyotr Safroshkin’s placard reads, “200 days of blood and pain. Do you really want more?” Anti-war protests continue across Russia.

Ukrainian forces reconquered more territory in the country’s south and east as they advance against Moscow’s seven-month invasion aimed at destroying Ukraine’s independence. As his war falters, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed four regions of Ukraine seized by Moscow were…


Women’s emancipation is tied to working-class fight for power

Vol. 86/No. 38 - October 17, 2022
Frederick Engels with Clara Zetkin, fellow German revolutionary leader, at international congress in Zurich in August 1893. Engels wrote that only when the exploitation of the working class by capital has been ended “can true equality between men and women become a reality.”

This week’s selection from October Books of the Month is The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State by Frederick Engels, first published in 1884. Engels was the lifelong political collaborator of Karl Marx in founding the modern…



Build solidarity with union struggles today

Vol. 86/No. 38 - October 17, 2022

Statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Congress from New Jersey, Sept. 30. Kuniansky is a member of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union. Working people confront both deteriorating living standards caused by soaring prices…


Protests in Iran grow over death of Mahsa Amini, gov’t repression

Vol. 86/No. 38 - October 17, 2022
Teachers involved in school sit-in in Shiraz, Oct. 4 supporting sweeping protests over death of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian Kurdish woman, after her arrest by Iran’s “morality police.”

Despite brutal repression by government forces, protests against the police killing of Mahsa Amini have spread to all of Iran’s 31 provinces, and among working people from the country’s main nationalities and religions. Amini, a Kurdish woman, died Sept. 16,…




Join fight for amnesty for all immigrants living in the US!

Vol. 86/No. 37 - October 10, 2022

Republican governors in Arizona, Florida and Texas have been sending busloads of migrants who’ve crossed the Mexican border to liberal northern “sanctuary” cities, saying authorities there should be glad to get them. Democratic mayors, like New York’s Eric Adams, and…


Lebanese toilers seek their money after banks freeze funds

Vol. 86/No. 37 - October 10, 2022

Sali Hafiz, right, at May 23 protest in Beirut, instantly became a folk hero across Lebanon after she entered a bank Sept. 14 with a fake gun and demanded $20,000 of her own money. Earlier the bank denied her request…