WASHINGTON — Three weeks after truckers parked their rigs by the U.S. Capitol May 1, they ended their national protest calling for an end to brokers slashing their rates and for elimination of government overregulation. An estimated 500 to 1,000…
Nine new contributors to this special appeal last week brought the total to $95,000, from 84 people and increasing! Harvey McArthur, from the Chicago area, sent his check with a note: “Enclosed is a check from proceeds of the ‘stimulus’…
ATLANTA — Cheryl Goertz, a 55-year cadre of the Socialist Workers Party, died May 19 of complications from a lifelong congenital autoimmune disease. Born in Hillsboro, Kansas, in 1944, Goertz joined the SWP in the mid-1960s in Chicago. She spent…
On May 18 a group of Crimean Tatars put on trial by Moscow on trumped-up terrorism charges staged a daring protest during a military court hearing in Rostov-on-Don in Russia. Placed behind a glass cage for the hearing, the seven…
Long-suppressed evidence showing the FBI framed up President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn was revealed April 29. The exposure of this operation is important for the working class, not because we have any stake in defending Flynn.…
PHILADELPHIA — For the last five years Amtrak engineer Brandon Bostian, a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, has been hounded by prosecutors and government officials determined to frame him up for a 2015 passenger train derailment…
Like it has done ever since the fight to overthrow the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista began, the revolutionary leadership in Cuba has turned to working people to lead the way again. They are doing so to confront the impact…
Protests demanding prosecution of the vigilantes who killed Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, Georgia, and the cops who killed Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, and George Floyd in Minneapolis deserve the support of all working people. Cop and vigilante violence are…
June 12, 1995 SAO PAULO, Brazil — “This strike is about dignity and sovereignty,” said Eduardo Jenner Ozório, an operator at the Petrobras oil refinery in Cubatao, Brazil. Jenner gave an interview to the Militant May 30 through the steel…
