Martha Grevatt

Over 100 pro-Palestine activists rallied and marched to the office of Case Western Reserve University on Sept. 18 in protest of the expulsion of Yousef Khalaf, a leader of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. CWRU students erected the encampment on April 29 and kept it up until May 10.

The Palestinian Factions (National and Islamic Forces) explained in an Oct. 5 statement that: “The blessed Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood on the glorious 7th of October brought about a strategic shift in the struggle with the zionist occupation and revealed its true nature to the entire world. It came as a natural response to the crimes of the criminal occupation against our Palestinian people and to confront the projects and plans of the zionist occupation and its supporters. Resistance continues as a legitimate right to achieve freedom and establish a free Palestinian state with Al-Quds [Jerusalem] as its capital.” (Resistance News Network, Oct. 5)

United Auto Workers union members are getting ready to vote to authorize a strike at Stellantis, the company that includes Chrysler. This vote comes just over a year since the UAW struck Stellantis, General Motors and Ford and won major contract gains.

Since July, Starbucks Workers United has been promoting monthly “Red for Bread” days of action. In October, what had been a long weekend of solidarity the three previous months was expanded to a full week of leafleting and picketing outside Starbucks stores. Over 550 separate actions took place from

The recently released film “Union” depicts one of the most important contemporary victories for the U.S. labor movement: the union election win at Amazon’s JFK8 “fulfillment center” in Staten Island, New York.

The U.S. economy only added 12,000 jobs in the month of October, a big drop from the 200,000 average monthly job gains previously in 2024 and just one-tenth of the predicted 120,000 added jobs for September.

For over a year, the capitalist media has falsely portrayed Israel’s genocidal war against the people of Palestine as a war between Israel and Hamas, the resistance group that launched the Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023. The Flood was a heroic challenge to apartheid conditions imposed on Palestini

In the morning of Nov. 12, a new group, Engineers Against Apartheid, held banners and signs and gave speeches outside the United Auto Workers headquarters in downtown Detroit. The main banner read: “Unchain the UAW! Divest from Israel now!”

Nov. 22 marked the 10th anniversary of the racist murder of 12-year-old Tamir Rice by Cleveland police officers. Officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback pulled up to the site where Tamir was playing with a toy gun. Loehmann shot and killed the Black sixth-grader immediately. Mass, militant protests took place in Cleveland.

Thousands of Amazon workers went on strike in over 20 countries on Nov. 29 — so-called “Black Friday,” the busiest day of the year for retail warehouse workers. The strikes and demonstrations were part of the fifth annual “Make Amazon Pay” global day of action, which has highlighted the fact that Am