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Socialist Workers Party Fund Drive Oct. 5 – Dec. 10 (Week 8)

Fall Campaign to sell Militant subscriptions and books Oct. 5 – Dec. 10 (Week 8)

Australia: Women make gains in right to choose abortion

SYDNEY — In a gain for women’s rights, a new bill decriminalizing abortion passed the New South Wales state parliament Sept. 26. The vote followed a rally of 500 held here Sept. 14 in support of women’s right to choose…

‘The making of a union bureaucrat’

From ‘The Turn to Industry: Forging a Proletarian Party,’ new book from Pathfinder Press

The following is a chapter excerpted from The Turn to Industry: Forging a Proletarian Party by Socialist Workers Party National Secretary Jack Barnes. The Militant ran the new book’s introduction in its Nov. 11 issue, and will continue to publish…

Over 10,000 farmers in Germany protest against gov’t restrictions

Over 10,000 farmers from all over Germany drove more than 5,000 tractors in a 6-mile-long convoy crawling through the streets of Berlin Nov. 26 to protest government plans to sharply restrict the use of pesticides, herbicides and fertilizer. Farmers also…

‘Peoples of Cuba and the US are fraternal and invincible’

Cuba and the Coming American Revolution by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for December. The book is about the struggles of working people in the imperialist heartland, the…

Iraq upsurge continues, prime minister to resign

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi announced his resignation Nov. 29 after nearly two months of mass anti-government protests have shaken the country. The youthful demonstrators are demanding an end to the effects of the economic crisis — joblessness, lack of…

New York labor rally supports Amazon warehouse workers

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Workers at the large Amazon warehouse here were joined by some 100 area unionists and other supporters to greet workers coming and going from their jobs at the giant e-commerce company’s fulfillment center here Nov. 25.…

Copper strikers fight Asarco union busting

Bitter strike battle enters 8th week, no end in sight

As the bitter strike by some 1,700 workers against Asarco copper bosses’ union-busting drive entered its eighth week, the company claimed there is an “impasse” in negotiations. It is implementing its “best, last and final” offer as of Dec. 2.…

Senior residence workers in Quebec strike for higher pay

MONTREAL — Some 375 workers at four private seniors’ residences in Quebec began a five-day strike for higher wages here Nov. 26. The orderlies, kitchen, janitorial, laundry and maintenance workers — members of the Quebec Union of Service Employees (SQEES)…