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Fall Campaign to sell Militant subscriptions and books (week seven)

Belarus regime attacks protests, forced to free unionists

Many thousands protested in Minsk, the capital, and in other cities across Belarus Nov. 8. They marched despite the authoritarian government of Alexander Lukashenko sending in riot police, who broke up converging columns of demonstrators before they could rally in…

Newfoundland strikers vote on Dominion’s ‘final offer’

The 1,400 workers who belong to Unifor Local 597 on strike at the Dominion supermarket chain in Newfoundland started voting on a “final” contract proposal from the company Nov. 9. The balloting continues at the picket lines until Nov. 13.…

Primary care nurses strike across New Zealand

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Over 100 primary care workers held a lively picket here Nov. 9. It was part of a 24-hour strike and protest actions by over 3,000 nurses and administration and reception staff from family doctor offices and…

Chicago feed workers strike for better pay and conditions

CHICAGO — Twenty-eight members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 881 at ReConserve went on strike Nov. 2 for better pay and conditions. The company takes food scraps and converts them into feed for pigs and chickens. The plant…

SWP wins first round in Washington disclosure fight

SEATTLE — The fight against government threats in Washington state to disclose the names and addresses of the electors here for the 2020 Socialist Workers Party presidential slate of Alyson Kennedy and Malcolm Jarrett has won an important initial victory.…

Bolshevik Revolution showed road forward in Transcaucasus

Weeks of fighting in the southern Caucasus between the regimes in Azerbaijan and Armenia over control of the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh has taken a big toll on working people throughout the area. With the Turkish government backing Azerbaijan and Moscow…

Workers need our own party, a labor party!

Rulers’ response to 2020 vote shows fear of working class

The 2020 presidential election is over say the Associated Press, CNN and other liberal news media. They’ve declared Democrat Joe Biden the next president, weeks prior to states certifying the vote; or the results of the recount underway in Georgia;…

25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

November 27, 1995 The largest mobilizations against U.S. bases in decades have taken place in Japan recently. They were sparked by the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan school girl. Three U.S. soldiers entered guilty pleas to conspiring to abduct and…

A fighting course forward for working people today

The Socialist Workers Party and its 2020 candidates raised proposals and set an example advancing the struggles of working people against the effects of a social, economic and health crisis caused by the workings of capitalist exploitation that isn’t going…