Holiday greetings to readers behind bars!

Vol. 89/No. 46 - December 22, 2025

Holiday greetings to our readers behind bars! The 1.8 million people incarcerated in the U.S. are overwhelmingly part of the working class. The defense of their rights and their ability to have unfettered access to the news and politics of…


Deadly flooding in Southeast Asia reveals social catastrophe

Vol. 89/No. 46 - December 22, 2025
Flood survivors cross swollen river on logs in North Sumatra, Indonesia, Dec. 2. Unbridled capitalist expansion turned storms, flooding in Southeast Asia into a deadly social disaster.

SYDNEY — Monsoon rains and tropical storms caused massive floods and landslides, which devastated much of Southeast Asia since late November, leaving some 2,000 dead and over 1 million displaced. Buildings and farmland, including whole towns, have been destroyed, and…


Washington expands bases, weaponry in Puerto Rico

Vol. 89/No. 46 - December 22, 2025
Demonstration against U.S. Marines training at Camp Santiago in Salinas, Puerto Rico, organized by Mothers Against War Nov. 29. In center is Sonia Santiago, a leader of the group.

As part of its broader military buildup across Latin America and the Caribbean, Washington has rapidly expanded U.S. aerial and naval operations in Puerto Rico, provoking widespread concern and indignation among working people there. Many oppose the U.S. rulers once…


4,500 Jews Get Another Lesson in ‘Democracy’

Vol. 89/No. 46 - December 22, 2025

This article appeared in the Aug. 4, 1947, Militant. It describes the plight of Jews seeking to escape displaced persons camps in Europe on the Exodus seeking refuge in Palestine, who were blocked by the British rulers. London, like Washington…


‘Anti-Zionism is Jew-hatred, it is not OK’

Vol. 89/No. 46 - December 22, 2025
‘Anti-Zionism is Jew-hatred, it is not OK’

NEW YORK — Over 1,000 demonstrators turned out to defend the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan and protest against Jew-hatred Dec. 4. The rally was in response to a provocative threat two weeks earlier when a screaming Jew-hating mob of…


Jew-hating moves to bar Israel from Eurovision competition end in failure

Vol. 89/No. 46 - December 22, 2025

After the concerted campaign by several imperialist powers and other countries to get Israel banned from the annual Eurovision Song Contest, part of their broader effort to make the Jewish state into a pariah, national broadcasters from Ireland, Spain, the…


50,000 protest gov’t attack on unions, rights in Quebec

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025
Over 50,000 joined union-sponsored demonstration in Montreal Nov. 29 to protest new laws pushed by Quebec government, a frontal attack on right to strike, other political rights.

MONTREAL — More than 50,000 working people took part in a large union federation-sponsored demonstration here Nov. 29, protesting a series of new laws either adopted or proposed by the Coalition for the Future of Quebec (CAQ) government of Premier…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025

December 11, 2000 HAVANA — During the Second World Conference of Friendship and Solidarity with Cuba, held here Nov. 10-14, Vilma Espín, president of the Cuban Federation of Women (FMC), led a discussion with more than 50 participants. “As women…


Ukraine fights to defend itself, US gov’t talks deal with Putin

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025
Nataliia Naumova, 70, right, recovers from FPV drone attack in Kherson hospital, Ukraine, Nov. 3. Russian drone operators conduct “human safaris” on Ukrainian civilians in Kherson.

Moscow’s murderous war on Ukraine is centered on attacks on civilians in the country’s cities today. In Kherson, Russian President Vladimir Putin is retaliating against working people for rising up against Moscow’s occupation. Russian forces are using new FPV —…


US hands off Venezuela!

Vol. 89/No. 45 - December 15, 2025

Working people in the United States and worldwide should help build opposition and protests against the escalating threats by Washington — with bipartisan support — against Venezuela’s sovereignty and its government. We should protest the crude disregard for human life…