Ukraine battles to stop Moscow’s deadly invasion

Vol. 89/No. 32 - September 15, 2025

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime has stepped up its murderous airstrikes on working people in Ukraine’s cities as it pursues its goal of conquering the country. It rebuffed attempts by President Donald Trump to broker an end to the conflict…


All working-class battles are political fights

Vol. 89/No. 32 - September 15, 2025

More workers today are speaking up, using unions and organizing solidarity. Opportunities to build and strengthen the labor movement continue to open up, which were reflected at Labor Day actions nationwide. Strikes by members of the United Auto Workers at…


Fight against Jew-hatred crucial for Bolshevik victory in civil war

Vol. 89/No. 32 - September 15, 2025
Workers turn out to greet Red Army soldiers who liberated Odesa, Ukraine — which had the largest Jewish population in czarist Russia — from counterrevolutionary forces in 1919. By the end of the civil war in 1921, the Red Army had put an end to anti-Jewish pogroms.

In the Russian Revolution and its defense against imperialist attack and capitalist-led civil war afterward, the V.I. Lenin-led Bolshevik Party put the fight against Jew-hatred at the center of its proletarian internationalist course. Today, reactionary leaders in the Ukraine government’s…


Labor Day reflects growing working-class resistance

Vol. 89/No. 32 - September 15, 2025
Banner at Labor Day parade in Toronto Sept. 1 explained class reality facing Air Canada flight attendants. Their Aug. 16-19 strike continued in defiance of a federal government back-to-work order. This is the fourth strike in past year where Ottawa intervened on side of the bosses.

Labor Day marches, rallies and other events across North America reflected the step up in union battles today and the thirst of union members for a working-class road forward. Some 40 Air Canada flight attendants, part of the 10,000 Canadian…


Workers bear brunt of today’s capitalist crisis

Vol. 89/No. 32 - September 15, 2025

The capitalist economic crisis unfolding today is bearing down hardest on working-class families. High prices for basic necessities, including groceries, rent, electricity, medical care, child care, care for the elderly and more make it difficult to make ends meet. Under…


UAW on strike at GE Aerospace in Ohio and Kentucky

Vol. 89/No. 32 - September 15, 2025

EVENDALE, Ohio — More than 600 members of United Auto Workers Local 647 went on strike Aug. 28 against GE Aerospace here and across the Ohio River in Erlanger, Kentucky. Workers at the Evendale plant assemble engines used in marine…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 32 - September 15, 2025

September 11, 2000 Through a militant strike against telecommunications giant Verizon, some 86,000 workers emerged victorious after two and a half weeks. Workers won a central demand—removing obstacles to the union’s ability to organize the fast-growing wireless division of the…


Slanders, lies of Israeli genocide in Gaza fall in face of the facts

Vol. 89/No. 32 - September 15, 2025

Claims Israel is committing genocide and starving Palestinian children in Gaza are growing louder. It’s a theme of the liberal bourgeois media, U.N. agencies, Stalinist parties and Hamas apologists, and the chorus is being joined by growing numbers of capitalist…


‘Independence for Puerto Rico from US colonial rule!’

Vol. 89/No. 32 - September 15, 2025
‘Independence for Puerto Rico from US colonial rule!’

NEW YORK — Supporters of independence for Puerto Rico from U.S. colonial rule demonstrated here and in several other cities Aug. 31. The actions coincided with a march of several thousand in San Juan, Puerto Rico, sponsored by a coalition…


2,000 bus workers in London strike 2 days over pay, schedules

Vol. 89/No. 32 - September 15, 2025

LONDON — Carrying signs saying, “Don’t blame your drivers, blame our bosses,” striking bus drivers picketed the Westbourne Park Garage Sept. 1. Some 2,000 drivers, engineers and controllers, members of Unite the Union, walked out for two days at seven…