Ramp workers protest working conditions at Miami airport

Vol. 83/No. 26 - July 22, 2019

MIAMI — Several dozen nonunion ramp workers held a rally here June 27 to protest working conditions at Eulen America, which provides flight services to Delta and American Airlines. Although many of the workers make $15 to $16 an hour,…


Indiana Machinists strike for health care, living wages

Vol. 83/No. 26 - July 22, 2019

VALPARAISO, Ind. — “My family is on strike,” Stephanie Lambert, a striking lab worker at Regal Beloit Manufacturing, told the Militant July 6. Some 130 members of International Association of Machinists Local 2018 walked out here a week earlier when…


New Zealand workers who care for disabled strike for contract

Vol. 83/No. 26 - July 22, 2019

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — More than a dozen IDEA Services workers picketed the South Auckland regional office here June 23, part of a 24-hour nationwide strike against the division of IHC. IDEA (Intellectual Disability Empowerment in Action) Services contracts to…


Almost half of all US workers live ‘paycheck to paycheck’

Vol. 83/No. 26 - July 22, 2019

According to government figures, the U.S. economy has been expanding for over a decade, the longest uptick in U.S. history, with the stock market at record levels and official unemployment at a 50-year low. But under the class realities of…


‘Working people need to break with Democrats, Republicans’

Vol. 83/No. 26 - July 22, 2019

UNION CITY, N.J. — “The 2020 presidential election campaign has been launched by the Republicans and Democrats. Over the next 16 months the Socialist Workers Party candidates and their supporters will present the need to break with the capitalist two-party…


US rulers step up economic war against Cuba and Venezuela

Vol. 83/No. 26 - July 22, 2019

The U.S. Treasury Department added Cuba’s state-owned Cuba-metales, which handles all Cuba’s imports of fuels and oil, including from Venezuela, to its growing blacklist July 3. It’s the latest move by Washington to tighten its decadeslong embargo against Cuba, part…


‘Militant’ fights censorship by Florida, Kansas prison officials

Vol. 83/No. 26 - July 22, 2019

BREAKING NEWS — The Militant has scored a victory in the fight against prison censorship with the announcement by the Kansas Department of Corrections that it has lifted all its bans on the Militant. The Militant had informed Kansas officials…



Liberals’ Green New Deal is trap for working class

Modeled on Roosevelt’s WWII attacks on unions
Vol. 83/No. 25 - July 15, 2019

One feature of capitalist politics in the U.S. is the entry of a layer of self-proclaimed socialists — like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — who see their mission to rebrand the Democratic Party to better ensnarl workers and to reform and defend…


Iran book fair: US embargo hits pocket cash, not political interest

Vol. 83/No. 25 - July 15, 2019
Some 3,200 publishers participated in Tehran book fair, attracting hundreds of thousands from across Iran. Over 300 books by revolutionary working-class leaders were sold at Pathfinder booth. Talaye Porsoo, which displayed 53 Pathfinder titles in Farsi, sold over 700 books.

TEHRAN, Iran — The 32nd Tehran International Book Fair took place at the large Mosalla mosque complex here April 24-May 4. Hundreds of thousands from around the country attended amid rising U.S. imperialist military threats, economic sanctions and a declining…