Monarchy plays key role in capitalist rule in the UK

Vol. 86/No. 35 - September 26, 2022

Given the death of Queen Elizabeth II in the United Kingdom Sept. 8, and the widespread coverage in the big-business press worldwide of the pomp and circumstance that has followed, the Militant is reprinting an excerpt from Capitalism’s World Disorder:…



Minn. nurses demand control over staff levels

Vol. 86/No. 35 - September 26, 2022

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Some 15,000 members of the Minnesota Nurses Association began a three-day strike Sept. 12 at 15 hospitals in the Twin Cities and Duluth areas. They have been working without a contract since June 1. Hundreds picketed…


NZ firefighters march for wages, more hiring

Vol. 86/No. 35 - September 26, 2022

ONEHUNGA, New Zealand — Wearing their firefighting gear, some 25 workers in the New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union led a protest march here Aug. 26, building support for their fight for a contract. The stoppage was part of a second…


Indonesia workers protest government 30% fuel hike

Vol. 86/No. 35 - September 26, 2022
Indonesia workers protest government 30% fuel hike

Thousands of people have rallied in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital city, and across the country Sept. 6 and since, demanding the government reverse a 30% jump in fuel prices it imposed amid soaring inflation in this country of 270 million people.…


Support builds for Case New Holland UAW strikers

Vol. 86/No. 35 - September 26, 2022

BURLINGTON, Iowa — “We are not going anywhere!” United Auto Workers Local 807 strike captain Craig Bowen told the Militant  at the picket line outside Case New Holland here on Labor Day. “And you can quote me on that.” “Yes,…


1962 ‘missile’ crisis book tells story from Cuba’s side

Vol. 86/No. 35 - September 26, 2022

Pathfinder Press has released a 60th anniversary printing of October 1962: The ‘Missile’ Crisis as Seen from Cuba. The full story of that moment is told for the first time from the perspective of the Cuban people, whose determination to…


Yazidis fight to return home seven years after defeat of Islamic State

Vol. 86/No. 35 - September 26, 2022
Rudaw/Bilind T. Abdullah Yazidi refugee camp in Iraq’s Kurdistan region. Hundreds of thousands of Yazidis are blocked from returning to their homeland, which they fled after Islamic State genocide in 2014.

LONDON — Eight years after the reactionary Islamic State’s genocidal attack on the Yazidi people in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq, hundreds of thousands of Yazidis remain determined to return to their towns and villages and rebuild their lives,…


Fight FBI harassment in Puerto Rico!

Vol. 86/No. 35 - September 26, 2022

FBI harassment of participants in the Juan Rius Rivera Brigade from Puerto Rico and other opponents of the U.S. economic war on Cuba is a serious threat to rights working people need in both Puerto Rico and the U.S. Labor…


Ukrainian forces push Putin back! Support Ukraine independence!

Vol. 86/No. 35 - September 26, 2022
Russian armored vehicles abandoned in river by demoralized troops in Kharkiv region fleeing Ukraine offensive. Russian-led forces, deeply dispirited by lack of support from Ukrainians in cities they occupied, departed in disarray, surrendered or deserted.

Ukrainian government forces are driving back the Russian rulers’ attempts to conquer and crush the Ukraine people and its independence. Kyiv’s forces broke through demoralized Russian front-line troops in northeast Ukraine Sept. 6, who fled in disarray. In a week,…