Statement by John Studer, Socialist Workers Party national campaign director, Nov. 10. The only party that told the truth in the 2021 elections about how working people can fight back against mounting attacks we face today was the Socialist Workers…
After lengthy debate, Benin’s parliament voted Oct. 20 to decriminalize abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy. If ratified by the constitutional court, Benin will become the first country in West Africa to legalize a woman’s right to choose to…
NEW YORK — Led by a contingent of miners from the more than seven-month-long strike at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, over 400 people marched here Nov. 4 to support the strikers and to protest an Oct. 27 court…
WATERLOO, Iowa — United Auto Workers members on strike at John Deere plants in Iowa, Illinois and Kansas, and distribution centers in Denver and Atlanta, rejected the bosses’ second contract proposal Nov. 2. While it contained a higher wage offer…
The Militant and books by Socialist Workers Party leaders and other revolutionaries are getting around among working people. Strikers on picket lines say they appreciate the paper’s accurate coverage of their struggles and the news it brings them of other…
The 2021 elections registered a sharp rejection of the anti-working-class politics of the liberal and middle-class socialist wing of the Democratic Party by workers and farmers across the country. From “defund the cops” referendums in Minneapolis and Seattle to the…
ATLANTA — Family members of Ahmaud Arbery and their supporters expressed anger at the way jury selection turned out in the trial of three vigilantes who killed the Black youth. All but one of the 12-member jury and three alternates…
Fifteen days after some two dozen New York City yellow-cab drivers began a well-publicized hunger strike, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer and Taxi and Limousine Commissioner Aloysee Heredia Jarmoszuk announced Nov. 3 an agreement had…
SANTE FE SPRINGS, Calif. — Members of Local 37 of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union at Jon Donaire went on strike here Nov. 3. Their chant is “Raise, respect and pension!” They make products under…
