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…


Miners, nurses, oil workers, retirees take to streets in Iran

Water shortage, price hikes, war moves fuel protests
Vol. 89/No. 43 - December 1, 2025
Nov. 4 protest and strike by workers in the South Pars gas field for higher wages, more humane work schedules. Dozens of labor actions and strikes are taking place every week in Iran.

 “Our pay slip is a mark of slavery,” several hundred temporary workers from the Fajr Jam gas refinery in Bushehr province in southern Iran chanted during a work stoppage and march Nov. 10. “Enough with promises, our table is empty.”…


Pro-Hamas thugs attack Toronto meeting defending Israel

Vol. 89/No. 43 - December 1, 2025

 MONTREAL — A Nov. 5 meeting organized by Students Supporting Israel at Toronto Metropolitan University was violently attacked by masked supporters of the Jew-hating outfit Students for Justice in Palestine. The meeting was called to hear two Israeli soldiers speak…


Former hostages describe torture, abuse by Hamas

Vol. 89/No. 43 - December 1, 2025

Along with the slaughter of 1,200 Jews and others and the rape and mutilation of dozens of women, a central part of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, pogrom was the kidnapping of 251 hostages, forcing them into captivity in Gaza. But…


The working class in the US is destined to take political power

Vol. 89/No. 43 - December 1, 2025
Petrograd Soviet meets amid 1917 Russian Revolution. Bolshevik Party led by V.I. Lenin went from tiny minority in February to leading workers, peasants to overthrow the czar and take power nine months later.

One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November is Speeches to the Party: The Revolutionary Perspective and the Revolutionary Party by James P. Cannon, who was the national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. The book covers the prospects…


Fight bipartisan assault on Venezuela, Cuba

Vol. 89/No. 43 - December 1, 2025

President Donald Trump’s escalating threats to the sovereignty of Venezuela’s working people are a serious danger to all workers. They’re the latest step in a decadeslong drive by both Democratic and Republican administrations to bring down Venezuela’s government. Their goal…


Allegiant pilots rally for contract, win solidarity

Vol. 89/No. 43 - December 1, 2025
Pilots demand new contract Nov. 18 at Pittsburgh airport.

PITTSBURGH — “Members of our union are protesting at 22 airports across the country today,” Will Fierman, a pilot and Teamster Local 2118 media representative, told the Militant at Pittsburgh International Airport Nov. 18. Some 1,400 Allegiant pilots are demanding…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 43 - December 1, 2025

November 27, 2000 HAVANA — The Second World Conference of Friendship and Solidarity with Cuba opened Nov. 10 with more than 4,000 in attendance from 117 countries. Hundreds of organizations are represented, including solidarity organizations, trade unions, peasant organizations and…


‘Working class needs its own party, a road to take power

SWP ‘Militant,’ books, fund drive go over the top!
Vol. 89/No. 43 - December 1, 2025
SWP member Tony Lane met Mandalynn Baird on her doorstep in Moundsville, West Virginia, Nov. 16. He explained why the working class needs to take political power. “That sounds right,” Baird said. “But how do we get there?” she asked as she subscribed to the Militant.

OAKLAND, Calif. — The Socialist Workers Party successfully completed the party’s eight-week fall campaign to win 1,300 new Militant subscribers and sell the same number of books by SWP leaders and other revolutionary fighters Nov. 18. Members of the Communist…