Sudan protests continue, fight to overturn military coup

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021

Sudanese security forces fired rubber bullets and arrested scores of protesters in attacks against rallies in several cities Nov. 7, part of an ongoing wave of actions against the Oct. 25 military coup led by Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. Thousands…


Socialist revolution in Russia set out to emancipate women

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021
Women at literacy class after triumph of 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. “Social construction,” Leon Trotsky writes, must improve “the position of mother and child.” Without child care, health care, culture reaching women, including in the countryside, “socialism is unthinkable.”

Women and the Family by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. Trotsky describes how under the leadership of Lenin and the Bolshevik Party workers and peasants fought to defend their revolution and to transform…


Over 22,000 Canadian public workers strike for higher pay

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021

FREDERICTON, New Brunswick — Over 22,000 members of 10 locals of the Canadian Union of Public Employees have been on strike across the province since Oct. 29. They are demanding higher wages to reduce the gap with public sector workers…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021

November 25, 1996 Class-conscious fighters around the world should loudly protest the imminent imperialist intervention in Central Africa. Using the pretext of a “humanitarian mission” to save refugees and the fig leaf of the United Nations, Paris, at first, and…


Kellogg’s workers strike for ‘Equal pay for equal work!’

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021
Since Oct. 5, 1,400 bakery workers have been on strike at Kellogg’s cereal plants. Chicago BCTGM Local 1 members and other supporters join picket in Battle Creek, Mich., Nov. 4.

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union negotiating committee voted down a Nov. 4 “last, best and final” set of contract demands from Kellogg’s bosses. Since Oct. 5, 1,400 union members have been…


Correction

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021

The photo caption on the Kaiser workers’ protest in issue no. 42 should have identified Jenny Wong Swanson as a shop steward in the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals.


Guantánamo trial exposes brutality of CIA torture

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021

In testimony before a sentencing jury of eight senior military officers Oct. 28, Majid Khan read a statement in court detailing his personal experiences being tortured by the CIA. Khan has been imprisoned for 15 years by the U.S. government…


We need our own party, a labor party

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021

Statement by John Studer, Socialist Workers Party national campaign director, Nov. 10. The only party that told the truth in the 2021 elections about how working people can fight back against mounting attacks we face today was the Socialist Workers…


Women in Benin win right to choose abortion

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021

After lengthy debate, Benin’s parliament voted Oct. 20 to decriminalize abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy. If ratified by the constitutional court, Benin will become the first country in West Africa to legalize a woman’s right to choose to…