Capitalist rulers blame workers for spread of COVID

Vol. 86/No. 3 - January 24, 2022

Millions of workers worldwide bristled with anger when they heard that French President Emmanuel Macron — a multimillionaire former investment banker — told Le Parisien in a Jan. 4 interview that he intended to “piss off” all those who remain…


Minneapolis trial prosecution deals blows to workers’ rights

Vol. 86/No. 3 - January 24, 2022

MINNEAPOLIS — After a 24-day trial here, former Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly Potter was found guilty Dec. 23 on charges of first- and second-degree manslaughter in the killing of 20-year-old African American Daunte Wright during a traffic stop last…


Thousands strike King Soopers groceries in Colorado

Vol. 86/No. 3 - January 24, 2022
Thousands strike King Soopers groceries in Colorado

ARVADA, Colo. — Some 8,400 grocery store workers, members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, went out on strike Jan. 12 at 87 stores in the region. They are fighting for better wages and working conditions, and against…


Australia refugees fight detention, rotten conditions

Vol. 86/No. 3 - January 24, 2022

SYDNEY — Australia’s ruling capitalist families have a long history of harsh border control measures against refugees trying to land by boat. Beginning in 2012, Canberra began paying the governments of Papua New Guinea and Nauru to run detention centers…


Oppose rulers’ attacks on political rights!

Vol. 86/No. 3 - January 24, 2022

For decades the capitalist rulers in Washington have used the FBI — their political police — to spy on, disrupt and frame up militant workers, Black rights fighters, opponents of its wars, and communists, and to make a mockery of…



San Diego-area sanitation strikers fight for wages, safety

Vol. 86/No. 3 - January 24, 2022
Sanitation workers in Teamsters Local 542 stand firm in nearly four-week strike against Republic Services in the San Diego area demanding wages on par with company’s workers elsewhere.

SAN DIEGO — Sanitation workers on strike at Republic Services in the San Diego area remain on the picket lines after voting down a new offer by the company Jan. 6. Workers are demanding higher wages, on a par with…



25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 86/No. 3 - January 24, 2022

January 27, 1997 January 15 was the biggest day yet as protest strikes in south Korea entered their fourth week. Union officials say 630,000 workers participated in the strike that day, and tens of thousands flooded the streets of Seoul…


St. Vincent nurses score victory in 10-month strike

Win better conditions for workers and patients
Vol. 86/No. 3 - January 24, 2022

WORCESTER, Mass. —Nurses organized by the Massachusetts Nurses Association at St. Vincent Hospital struck the Tenet-owned facility here for 10 months. On Jan. 3 they voted 487-9 to ratify a contract that provides for a limit of four patient assignments…