Moscow’s war aims to destroy the Ukrainian people, culture

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024
Hundreds of people volunteered to clear debris, save survivors at Ukraine’s main children’s cancer hospital in Kyiv after missile hit July 8 in Moscow’s deadliest air attacks in months.

When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion in 2022, he minced no words in explaining Ukraine is not really a nation at all and has no right to be one. “Modern Ukraine was entirely and fully created by Russia,”…


Ontario Cargill workers end strike for better wages

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024
UFCW Canada members at Cargill’s beef-processing plant in Guelph, Ontario, on strike since May 27 seeking wages that match inflation, accepted new contract.

GUELPH, Ontario — After a hard-fought six-week strike at the Cargill beef-processing plant here, the nearly 1,000 members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 175 narrowly voted to accept the latest contract offer July 6. After voting a 99%…


Flight attendants set rally

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024

On July 31 members of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA at Endeavor Air will picket at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. They’re demanding wages equal to those paid at Delta Air Lines, Endeavor’s parent company.  While wearing the same uniforms…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024

July 19, 1999 The following statement was issued by the Communist League in Canada. The labor movement across Canada must transform the huge sympathy for the 47,500 Quebec nurses into actions in the streets. We must call for repeal of…


‘Exodus’: Hard-fought journey of heroic Holocaust survivors

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024
Jewish refugees hemmed in by British troops on Exodus in Haifa, Palestine, July 18, 1947, after they rammed, boarded the boat. British took them to displaced persons camps in Germany.

This month marks the 77th anniversary since thousands of survivors of the Holocaust boarded a ship in France, soon renamed Exodus 1947, in an attempt to rebuild their lives in Palestine. From the get-go the ship was trailed, then brutally…


Join our fight against the ban on the ‘Militant’ in Florida prison

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024

“I learned that Florida prison officials have banned an issue of the Militant newspaper in violation of inmates’ constitutional rights and the right of the Militant to reach its subscribers,” Yecenia Arango, assistant branch manager of the St. Louis County…


Minneapolis park workers strike is for ‘whole working class’

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS — “If we fight, we win!” 100 members, family and supporters of Laborers’ Local 363 chanted as they rallied at the Labor Center here July 4. The union, which represents over 300 workers who take care of the park…


Socialist Workers Party campaign is only voice for the working class

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024
Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, introduces campaign to Robert Gray in Vermont July 9. So far 1,474 people have signed to put party on the ballot there.

SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. — On a hot, muggy afternoon July 9, Dennis Richter, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, joined campaigners here outside a Hannaford supermarket. He met Robert Gray, a telephone lineman from Happy Valley, Pennsylvania, who…


Mexican rulers surpass China as number one exporter to US

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024
Unionists at ArcelorMittal Mexico vote on proposed contract in Michoacán, Mexico, July 9. Some 3,500 steelworkers, members of the miners union, struck May 24, demanding better wages and working conditions. The company fired 1,200, calling the action illegal.

Mexico has surpassed China as the number one source of goods imported by the United States. The sharpening tensions between Washington and Beijing, as well as the drive by capitalist bosses to tap sources of goods closer to their main…


Capitalist exploitation fuels debt crisis wracking Africa

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024
Nigeria Labour Congress protest in Lagos Feb. 27 against government attacks on living conditions. Facing growing debt crisis, capitalist rulers across Africa are targeting working people.

Tens of thousands of Kenyans took to the streets last month to protest government moves to raise taxes to meet growing debts to foreign lenders and to appease the International Monetary Fund. Capitalist rulers throughout Africa face the same crisis. …