Drug trade is just another business under capitalism

Vol. 89/No. 44 - December 8, 2025

Washington claims the formidable military armada it’s assembled off Venezuela is aimed at taking action against drug dealers. But the U.S. rulers have no intention of stopping the drug trade, which attracts the traffickers, because it’s an exceptionally profitable business…


Jew-hating mob threatens attack on NY synagogue

Vol. 89/No. 44 - December 8, 2025

NEW YORK — A Jew-hating mob ready for blood gathered at the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan Nov. 19 and threatened violence against Jews going into a meeting there. This provocative action merits the condemnation of all working people, but…


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…


Boeing Machinists back to work after 101-day strike in Missouri

Vol. 89/No. 44 - December 8, 2025

After a 101-day strike, some 3,200 members of International Association of Machinists District 837 are back on the job at Boeing’s military aircraft and munitions plants in the St. Louis area. Machinists there voted in favor of accepting the company’s…


Fight to defend unions, political rights in Quebec

Vol. 89/No. 44 - December 8, 2025
Kruger packaging plant workers on strike in Montreal Nov. 21. Labor movement rally Nov. 29 to protest Quebec government attacks on unions, political rights as economic crisis deepens.

MONTREAL — Quebec’s four main union federations and five other unions are organizing to bring thousands of unionists to a mass united rally in Montreal Nov. 29. They are protesting a whole series of laws either already adopted or proposed…


Strike at Mauser Packaging in Chicago ends as bosses shut plant

Vol. 89/No. 44 - December 8, 2025

CHICAGO — Teamsters Local 705 members ended their strike at the Mauser Packaging Solutions subsidiary plant in the  Little Village neighborhood here Nov. 21. Bosses had announced they were shuttering the plant that day. The union’s 168 members walked off…