Canada flood social disaster is a product of capitalist greed

Vol. 85/No. 46 - December 13, 2021

MONTREAL — Tens of thousands of workers and farmers across British Columbia face widespread flooding, mud and rock slides after torrential rain hit central and southern parts of the province beginning Nov. 14. The unfolding social catastrophe, however, is not…



Build support for women’s right to have an abortion!

Vol. 85/No. 46 - December 13, 2021

As the Militant goes to press, the Supreme Court was hearing arguments over a Mississippi law that poses a direct challenge to a woman’s legal right to choose whether to have an abortion. Organizing to win a strong majority of…


Australia gov’t leads military intervention in Solomon Islands

Vol. 85/No. 46 - December 13, 2021

SYDNEY — Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Nov. 25 that he was sending Australian imperialist police and military to “provide security and stability” by suppressing anti-government demonstrations in the Solomon Islands, some 1,000 miles northeast in the South Pacific. For…


Rejecting self-defense claim, jury convicts killers of Ahmaud Arbery

Vol. 85/No. 46 - December 13, 2021
Wanda Cooper-Jones, mother of Ahmaud Arbery, watches as Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp,seated, signed repeal of Civil War-era “citizen’s arrest” law May 10. Three men who killed Arbery claimed law as their defense. Overturn of law was gain of protests against killing.

ATLANTA — Three men involved in the vigilante-style entrapment and killing of 25-year-old African American jogger Ahmaud Arbery last year were found guilty Nov. 24 in a unanimous verdict by a nearly all-white jury. Arbery was chased and gunned down…


Join ‘Militant’ to reach out to 1,333 new subscribers

Vol. 85/No. 46 - December 13, 2021
Matt Aubrey, UFCW Local 23D president, gets Militant subscription and Are They Rich Because They’re Smart? from Maggie Trowe during Heaven Hill distillery strike this fall in Kentucky.

The international drive to expand the readership of the Militant and of books by revolutionary leaders and to raise funds for the Socialist Workers Party was a big success. The decision to go for higher goals than previous drives —…



Fidel Castro: How Cuban working people made a socialist revolution

Vol. 85/No. 46 - December 13, 2021
Crowds welcome Fidel Castro and Rebel Army in Cienfuegos Jan. 6, 1959, after victory.

U.S. imperialism will never forgive working people in Cuba for overthrowing the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, replacing capitalist rule with a government of workers and farmers, nationalizing U.S. and Cuban companies and opening the first socialist revolution in the…


Mine explosion in Russia kills over 50 workers, dozens injured

Vol. 85/No. 46 - December 13, 2021

The bosses’ drive for profit at the expense of safety led to a deadly coal mine methane gas explosion in the Kemerovo region of southwestern Siberia Nov. 25. Over 50 people were killed and dozens more hospitalized. Five workers who…


Hospital workers walk out to support striking engineers

Vol. 85/No. 46 - December 13, 2021
California Nurses Association members walked out for one day Nov. 19, supporting striking engineers at 24 Kaiser hospitals in Northern California. Above, picket line in San Leandro.

OAKLAND, Calif. — The 700 members of IUOE Stationary Engineers Local 39, who are on strike at 24 Northern California Kaiser hospitals, got a boost Nov. 18 when members of other hospital unions participated in a one-day strike in support…