Working-class resistance boosts sales at Montreal book fair

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025

MONTREAL — Pathfinder Books, which features books by leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and other revolutionaries worldwide, from Fidel Castro to Russian revolutionaries V.I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky, mounted a sizable stand at the Nov. 19-23 Salon du livre…


Bolshevik Revolution showed the road forward for working people

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025
Workers meeting in a factory during 1917 Russian Revolution. The victory of the Bolshevik-led socialist revolution inspired millions worldwide to build communist parties, including in U.S.

Nov. 7 marked the 108th anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, led by V.I. Lenin. That powerful revolution showed workers can take political power into our own hands, and showed the kind of revolutionary working-class political party that is needed.…


G20 meeting exposes growing fight by rival capitalist rulers

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025
Vast disparities between social classes counterposed in Johannesburg, 2016. Claiming to fight “inequality emergency,” some G20 forces attack Washington’s place as top imperialist power

Mounting conflicts between the world’s rival capitalist powers over economic supremacy, political domination and the threat of new wars were exposed at the Nov. 22-23 G20 summit. Washington refused to attend, while the governments of Brazil and host nation South…


Hong Kong catastrophe: capitalist greed, gov’t disdain

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025

LONDON — A catastrophic fire at Hong Kong’s Wang Fuk Court complex left at least 159 dead, with dozens of people still missing as of Dec. 3. The inferno began at the high-rise apartments Nov. 26 and has drawn comparisons…


Reactionary jihadi rebels mount blockade of Bamako, Mali capital

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025
Islamist rebels aim to topple military government in Mali, impose Sharia law on toilers there.

Bamako, the capital of Mali, with 4 million people, is being choked off by a blockade imposed by Islamist rebels, preventing fuel, food and other goods from getting to the city, in an effort to bring down Mali’s military government.…


Moscow stages assault on Polish diplomat over Ukraine aid

Vol. 89/No. 44 - December 8, 2025

A brazen physical attack on the top Polish diplomat in Russia on a city street in St. Petersburg Nov. 16, followed by media coverage backing the attack, show how Moscow’s murderous war on Ukraine is increasingly roiling ties across Europe.…



Israelis in West Bank: ‘Stop attacks on Palestinians’

Vol. 89/No. 44 - December 8, 2025

The liberal bourgeois media paints Israelis who live in West Bank settlements as overwhelmingly racists who illegally live on “occupied” land and seek to ethnically cleanse the territory of Palestinians. They don’t say a word about Hamas and Islamic Jihad…


Cuba leads fight against Alzheimer’s disease

Vol. 89/No. 44 - December 8, 2025

WASHINGTON — “Today, I want to speak with you about an urgent crisis, a remarkable story and an opportunity we can no longer afford to ignore,” said Alejandro Pila, deputy ambassador at Cuba’s embassy here, welcoming some 50 participants to…


40,000 University of California workers organize two-day strike

Vol. 89/No. 44 - December 8, 2025
Members of AFSCME Local 3299 picket UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland Nov. 18, part of statewide two-day strike at UC hospitals for higher pay and better working conditions.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Some 40,000 custodians, cafeteria workers, patient care assistants, hospital technicians, gardeners and others at University of California hospitals and campuses, members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299, went on a two-day…