Georgia Teamsters win new contract at Republic Services

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025

CUMMING, Georgia — After 100 days on strike against the giant national waste hauling company Republic Services, some 30 Teamsters Local 728 members finally returned to work Oct. 16 after winning a new contract. They were the last group of…


‘Militant’ battles bans by prisons in Missouri, Kansas

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025

The Militant is fighting to reverse the banning of issues of the paper by the Lansing state prison in Kansas and of issue no. 28 by the Missouri Department of Corrections. What’s involved is a clear violation of prisoners’ constitutional…


US rulers step up war threats on Venezuela gov’t, toilers

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025
Helicopters on USS Iwo Jima in Caribbean Sept. 23. U.S. armada off Venezuela has blown up several boats, part of Washington’s drive to topple the government of Nicolás Maduro.

The Donald Trump administration is sharply escalating its threats against the government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. The combined military, political and economic pressure is also aimed at sending a message to other governments in Latin America and the Caribbean…


Mandela granddaughters in Israel: ‘People killed for being Jewish’

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025
Nelson Mandela’s granddaughters Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela (center) and Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway at aid site in Gaza during visit to Israel. “Seeing how families were murdered for simply being Jewish will stay with us forever,” Dlamini-Manaway said.

They were “glued to the television” Oct. 13 when Hamas released the hostages, Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway and Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela told the South African Jewish Report. Both are granddaughters of Nelson Mandela, the central leader of the fight that brought down apartheid…


British Columbia gov’t workers expand strike to almost 25,000

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — More than 1,600 members of the Professional Employees Association across the province have now joined striking BC Government Employees’ Union members on the picket line Oct. 16, bringing the total number of strikers to almost 25,000.…


Kaiser health care workers strike on West Coast, Hawaii

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025
More than 40,000 union health care workers struck Kaiser Permanente Oct. 14-19 in California, Oregon and Hawaii, over wages and safe staffing. Above, strikers in Harbor City, California.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Hundreds of Kaiser Permanente workers marched, chanted and picketed in front of Kaiser’s Oakland Medical Center here, part of a broader strike that lasted five days, Oct. 14-19. The strike here ended a day earlier than elsewhere.…


Growing losses in Ukraine breed disaffection, protests in Russia

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025
Stoptime band drew hundreds who danced, sang along at its street concerts in St. Petersburg, with songs denouncing Putin regime and its brutal war in Ukraine. From left, lead singer Diana Loginova, guitarist Vladislav Leontyev. At far right, drummer Alexandr Orlov.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion to try to conquer Ukraine and its people, the bloodiest war in Europe since World War II, has ground on for almost four years. Despite his escalating bombardments of civilians and the county’s power networks,…


Pathfinder sells 120 books at French Fete de l’Humanite

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025

BRETIGNY-SUR-ORGE, France — The depth of the world capitalist crisis, the imperialist rulers’ drive toward more wars and the need to build revolutionary working-class parties were at the heart of discussions at the Pathfinder stand at this year’s Fete de…


Join the SWP’s fall ‘Militant,’ book, Fund drive

Vol. 89/No. 39 - November 3, 2025

Across the U.S., Socialist Workers Party members and supporters of the Militant are spreading the word about today’s union struggles, discussing why the fight against Jew-hatred and Israel’s moves to destroy and dismantle Hamas are crucial to defending workers’ interests…