Ottawa’s turn against Israel spurs Jew-hatred in Canada

Vol. 88/No. 16 - April 22, 2024
Over 1,000 people rally at Toronto City Hall April 7 in protest against Jew-hatred, demand Hamas release Oct. 7 hostages. Rally took place amid sharp increase in Jew-hatred in Canada.

MONTREAL — After a daylong debate March 19, the Canadian Parliament adopted a motion approving Ottawa’s shift away from its longstanding support of Israel’s armed forces defending the country from attack. The motion adopted, proposed by the social democratic New…


Calif. nurses protest understaffing

Vol. 88/No. 15 - April 15, 2024

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Hundreds of nurses and supporters picketed outside the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center here April 2, the first day of a three-day strike by over 3,000 members of the Registered Nurses Professional Association at three county…


Quebec lead workers united against company lockout

Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024

SAINTE-CATHERINE, Quebec — “It’s clear the company is out to try to bust our union,” Steve Nault, president of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) local at Terrapure here, told the Militant on their picket line March 20. “They…


34 contracts won at LA-area hotels, 28 left to go

Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024
Workers picket DoubleTree Hotel in San Pedro, California, March 16 during three-day strike.

SAN PEDRO, Calif. — “This is our third three-day strike at this hotel since July,” Maria Gurrola told the Militant on the picket line at the DoubleTree here March 16. “We’re fighting for higher pay and better conditions. “Even if…


Moves to silence J.K. Rowling are attacks on women’s rights

Vol. 88/No. 13 - April 1, 2024
Protest at Scottish Parliament Feb. 9, 2023, over “transgender” men being put in women’s jail cells. Inset, J.K. Rowling faces “hate crime” charges over her support for ban on “all men — however they identify” in women’s spaces.

LONDON — TV personality India Willoughby asked police in Northumbria to arrest author J.K. Rowling for alleged “transphobia,” claiming that her online remarks were a “hate crime.” At stake for working people is the defense of crucial free speech rights,…



Thousands of farmers in India march on New Delhi

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024

Thousands of farmers in India are marching toward New Delhi protesting government attacks on their livelihoods. They’re encamped at multiple points along the way, with armed forces deployed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to block them from reaching the…


Patients die as ‘private equity’ hospital bosses rake in profits

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024
Sungida Rashid gave birth at Boston’s St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, above, last October, but began bleeding. Machine that could have saved her had been repossessed as bosses hadn’t paid for it. The center is run by Steward, largest private, for-profit hospital system in U.S.

The joy felt by Sungida Rashid and her husband, Nabil Haque, a couple who had just become new parents, was short-lived. Within hours of giving birth to a daughter at Boston’s St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center last October, Rashid began bleeding.…


Greek farmers protest low prices, gov’t regulations

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024

ATHENS, Greece — Over 6,000 farmers and their supporters rallied outside the Greek parliament here Feb. 20. Working people lined the sidewalk clapping and raising clenched fists as nearly 200 tractors caravanned into the city center. The tractorcade was joined…


Meeting marks life and political contributions of Bruce Kimball

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024
Above, Bruce Kimball. Inset, Peter Heathfield, left, general secretary of National Union of Mineworkers, with Kimball, Militant correspondent and coal miner, in March 1984.

ATLANTA – A meeting to celebrate the political life and contributions of Bruce Kimball, a member and later a supporter of the Socialist Workers Party for more than 50 years, was held here Feb. 4. Kimball died of cancer Jan.…