Moscow targets working people in Ukraine, bombs out power and heat

Vol. 90/No. 5 - February 9, 2026
Rail and other maintenance workers came from across Ukraine to volunteer in Kyiv repairing heating and power facilities damaged by massive drone and missile assaults by Moscow.

Ukrainian and U.S. officials met with Russian military representatives in Abu Dhabi Jan. 23-24 on terms to bring Moscow’s nearly four-year-long war on Ukraine to an end. At the same time, the Kremlin launched over 370 attack drones and 21…



US rulers deepen control over oil in Venezuela, cut delivery to China

Vol. 90/No. 5 - February 9, 2026

Following Washington’s assault on Venezuela, killing more than 100 Venezuelans and 32 Cubans there, and kidnapping President Nicolás Maduro, CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Caracas Jan. 15 to meet with new Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez. The meeting focused on…


31,000 Kaiser nurses strike over staffing in California, Hawaii

Vol. 90/No. 5 - February 9, 2026
Striking nurses picket Kaiser Hospital in Baldwin Park, near Los Angeles, Jan. 26. Some 31,000 hospital workers in California and Hawaii are fighting for safe staffing levels and a wage raise.

LOS ANGELES — Nurses and other health care workers set up picket lines at over two dozen Kaiser Permanente hospitals and hundreds of its clinics across California and in Hawaii Jan. 26, launching a strike against the Kaiser chain. The…


Fidel Castro: Why Cuba has no need for nuclear weapons

Vol. 90/No. 5 - February 9, 2026
Cuban President Fidel Castro places wreath for victims of atom bomb at memorial in Hiroshima, Japan, March 3, 2003.

Aug. 13, 2026, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Fidel Castro. Under his leadership the Rebel Army and July 26 Movement led Cuba’s working people to overthrow the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and opened the…


Tacoma nurses fight for safe staffing levels, a new contract

Vol. 90/No. 5 - February 9, 2026

TACOMA, Wash. — Hundreds of nurses, members of the Washington State Nurses Association, and their supporters picketed Tacoma General Hospital and Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital here Jan. 23, protesting management’s refusal to include safe staffing ratios for neonatal intensive care…


Kruger workers in Quebec strike for wages that offset inflation

Vol. 90/No. 5 - February 9, 2026

MONTREAL — More than 150 workers at the Kruger plant in the LaSalle neighborhood here, members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN), are on strike for the first time in 51 years. They walked out Jan. 12, after…


Join fight for amnesty for all immigrants in the US!

Unions need to lead to unify the working class
Vol. 90/No. 5 - February 9, 2026
Thousands rallied in Minneapolis Jan. 23, protesting gov’t attacks, deportations of immigrant workers. Area unions built and organized to help ensure it was a disciplined, peaceful action.

MINNEAPOLIS — Recent protests and other events unfolding in Minneapolis over the last week show both the potential for building a powerful and disciplined union-led movement to fight and win amnesty for those in the working class without papers, as…


Canada court rules gov’t use of Emergencies Act was illegal

Vol. 90/No. 5 - February 9, 2026
Police use pepper spray as they assault truckers and other protesters in Ottawa Feb. 19, 2022. Federal government used the Emergencies Act to attack free speech, right to protest.

MONTREAL — In an important and hard-fought victory for working people and defenders of political rights, Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal ruled Jan. 16 that the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s use of the draconian Emergencies Act to…