Home nursery workers in Jerusalem demand pay hike

Vol. 86/No. 36 - October 3, 2022
Home nursery workers strike for higher pay, better working conditions in Jerusalem Sept. 1.

Home nursery workers demonstrated in Jerusalem Sept. 1, part of a one-day strike demanding higher pay and better work conditions. The action was organized by the National Union of Day Care Workers, which has some 3,000 members — predominantly Jewish…


Patient care, working conditions led to nursing home strike

Vol. 86/No. 36 - October 3, 2022

PITTSBURGH — Workers from 13 of the 14 nursing homes in Pennsylvania took down their picket lines Sept. 9 after a week on strike. SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, their union, reached a tentative agreement with Comprehensive Healthcare and Priority Healthcare. The…


Ukrainian forces push Putin back! Support Ukraine independence!

Vol. 86/No. 35 - September 26, 2022
Russian armored vehicles abandoned in river by demoralized troops in Kharkiv region fleeing Ukraine offensive. Russian-led forces, deeply dispirited by lack of support from Ukrainians in cities they occupied, departed in disarray, surrendered or deserted.

Ukrainian government forces are driving back the Russian rulers’ attempts to conquer and crush the Ukraine people and its independence. Kyiv’s forces broke through demoralized Russian front-line troops in northeast Ukraine Sept. 6, who fled in disarray. In a week,…


White House war on constitutional freedoms is key issue in US today

Vol. 86/No. 35 - September 26, 2022

Constitutional freedoms won in blood that are essential for working people are under a concerted assault today from President Joseph Biden’s White House, using the Justice Department, anti-working-class laws like the Espionage Act, and the FBI, Washington’s political police, to…




Yazidis fight to return home seven years after defeat of Islamic State

Vol. 86/No. 35 - September 26, 2022
Rudaw/Bilind T. Abdullah Yazidi refugee camp in Iraq’s Kurdistan region. Hundreds of thousands of Yazidis are blocked from returning to their homeland, which they fled after Islamic State genocide in 2014.

LONDON — Eight years after the reactionary Islamic State’s genocidal attack on the Yazidi people in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq, hundreds of thousands of Yazidis remain determined to return to their towns and villages and rebuild their lives,…



1962 ‘missile’ crisis book tells story from Cuba’s side

Vol. 86/No. 35 - September 26, 2022

Pathfinder Press has released a 60th anniversary printing of October 1962: The ‘Missile’ Crisis as Seen from Cuba. The full story of that moment is told for the first time from the perspective of the Cuban people, whose determination to…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 86/No. 35 - September 26, 2022

September 29, 1997 SAN FRANCISCO — “We raised the bar for all workers by winning this strike,” Steve Gilbert told the Militant. “The fact that we ended the two-tier system and won the wage gains sends a message to other…