UAW members debate, vote up contract, more fights to come

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023
Chanting, “No deal? No wheels!” members of United Auto Workers Local 551 rallied at their union hall Oct. 7 in Chicago. The 4,600 workers at Ford there went on strike Sept. 29, bringing the total to 25,000 workers on strike against the Big Three auto companies in 21 states.

The United Auto Workers announced Nov. 20 that its members at Ford, General Motors and Stellantis had voted up new contracts after strikes at the Big Three’s assembly plants, parts production sites and distribution centers. They cover over 146,000 autoworkers.…


Defeat of Hamas, fight against Jew-hatred are union business

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023

Everything the bosses and their governments do is aimed at protecting their investments, markets and profits and their cutthroat national interests against rival capitalist regimes. Workers have an opposite class standpoint — we are one international class of toilers with…


25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023

December 21, 1998 Working people should condemn the government probes into the affairs of NY District Council 37 of AFSCME, which has nothing to do with “rooting out corruption” among the union officialdom. This provocative interference into the affairs of…


Correction

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023

In the article, “Working people in Ukraine fight genocidal war waged by Putin,” in Militant issue no. 46, Russia’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, is quoted as boasting 700,000 Ukrainian children have been taken to Russia. Kyiv authorities give…


Letters

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023

Roots of Hamas ‘eye-opening’ The Militant article by Terry Evans on the pro-Hitler roots of Hamas is eye-opening, particularly the role played by the Arab Higher Executive Committee of Palestine in 1948. This group organized anti-Jewish militias using “German POWs…


Communist League finds interest at London protest against Hamas

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023

LONDON — Over 200 people rallied outside government offices at Whitehall Dec. 3 to protest the brutal violence and rape Hamas thugs meted out to women during their Oct. 7 pogrom in Israel. Many pointed to the failure of most…


Thousands rally against Jew-hatred in Ottawa

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023
Thousands rally against Jew-hatred in Ottawa.

OTTAWA, Ontario — Thousands rallied in the snow here in Canada’s capital city Dec. 4 to support Israel’s right to defend itself against the genocidal assaults of Hamas and to oppose the rise in violent Jew-hating attacks in Canada. Some…


2013 Maidan uprising marked turning point in Ukraine

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023

Ten years ago, on Dec. 6 and 8, 2013, tens of thousands of workers and other Ukrainians from all over the country rallied in Kyiv, the country’s capital, joining the battle to oust the pro-Moscow government of Viktor Yanukovych. The…


Israeli workers look to unite, overcome divisions after Hamas attack

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023

Hamas hoped its Oct. 7 pogrom that slaughtered 1,200 people and wounded more than 5,000 would terrorize and demoralize Jews and all those who work with Jews in Israel. Instead, the assault has strengthened the will of working people to…


Support Israel’s fight to exist as a refuge for Jews

Fight against Jew-hatred!
Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023
Israeli troops in Gaza found huge stockpile of rockets, weapons, inset, near school and hospital Dec. 6. Hamas terror group deliberately hides and fires missiles into Israel from working-class areas. Their goal is to maximize civilian casualties among Palestinians from Israeli return fire in order to win international sympathy.

Israel’s efforts to dismantle Hamas’ capacity to wage wars on Jews resumed in Gaza Dec. 1, after the reactionary group reneged on its agreement to release all the women and children it seized during the Oct. 7 pogrom in Israel.…