Statement by Lea Sherman, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress from New Jersey, June 22. Working people face high stakes in defending ourselves and our families from rampant price hikes and boss attacks today. The threat of an economic…
“We are called the iron people,” train driver Yurii Yelisieiev, 42, told the June 16 Wall Street Journal. He was referring to Ukrainian rail workers, who, as part of the resistance to Moscow’s war, have kept this vital freight and…
“Compared to last year, government control this year was even stronger,” Daniel Chan wrote the Militant from Hong Kong June 15. He was referring to the large police operation blocking protesters there trying to hold a vigil to mark the…
Putin’s war on Ukraine is having a ripple effect in the Middle East, including weakening Moscow’s forces in Syria. Along with Tehran-backed militias, the Russian intervention is essential to propping up the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad. This is intensifying the…
Striking Warrior Met coal miners “are fighting against powerful forces in Alabama who want nothing more than to strip away everything we’ve earned,” United Mine Workers of America Secretary-Treasurer Brian Sanson told the national convention of the AFL-CIO union federation…
Opioid overdoses ravaging cities and rural areas alike killed nearly 110,000 people in the U.S. last year. And increasing numbers of state governments are legalizing and seeking to profit off the sale of marijuana. At the Cannabis World Congress and…
ATLANTA — “We’re keeping up our weekly solidarity rallies,” striking Warrior Met coal miner Otis Sims told the Militant in a phone interview May 29. “They’re important. Now we have them outside UMWA Local 2397’s union hall in Brookwood every…
June 23, 1997 In his recent travels, president William Clinton has been touting the Marshall Plan between 1948 and 1951 as a model for peace and economic development. Under this scheme, the U.S. rulers provided $13 billion in loans to…
Letters from Prison: A Revolutionary Party Prepares for Post-WWII Labor Battles by James P. Cannon, a founding leader of the Socialist Workers Party, is one of June’s Books of the Month. Cannon, with 17 other cadres of the SWP and…
The assassination in Tehran May 22 of Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, an operative of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Quds Force, widely believed to have been carried out by Israel’s spy and counterterrorism agency Mossad, has ratcheted up tensions in the Middle…
