Lebanese toilers seek their money after banks freeze funds

Vol. 86/No. 37 - October 10, 2022

Sali Hafiz, right, at May 23 protest in Beirut, instantly became a folk hero across Lebanon after she entered a bank Sept. 14 with a fake gun and demanded $20,000 of her own money. Earlier the bank denied her request…




White House acts to refurbish FBI, target rights workers need

Vol. 86/No. 37 - October 10, 2022

Serious blows are being struck to constitutional freedoms by President Joseph Biden’s White House, congressional Democrats and the FBI in the course of a mounting number of legal assaults against former President Donald Trump and his family members in the…


Oppose FBI attack on Cuba Solidarity Committee

Vol. 86/No. 37 - October 10, 2022

The FBI is expanding its efforts to intimidate Cuba solidarity supporters from Puerto Rico to the mainland, visiting or calling at least four people on the West Coast and Midwest over the last few weeks. The harassment began in Puerto…



Back railroad workers’ fight over schedules, jobs, crew size

Vol. 86/No. 37 - October 10, 2022

As the Militant  reported last week, the capitalist media acts like rail workers’ contracts are all settled and done with, but the fact is most rail union members either are just now receiving the tentative agreements to look at and…


Workers in Tunisia protest inflation, food shortages

Vol. 86/No. 37 - October 10, 2022

Hundreds of working people in Tunisia protested in the capital Sept. 25 against rising prices and food shortages, amid a deepening capitalist political crisis engulfing the country. Demonstrators chanted, “We can’t support crazy price hikes,” and “Jobs, freedom and national…


Protests in Iran, worldwide hit death of Mahsa Amini

Tehran’s ‘morality police’ harass, brutalize women
Vol. 86/No. 37 - October 10, 2022
Demonstrators block traffic in downtown Tehran, Sept. 21, 2022. Protests have spread across every province, over 80 cities in Iran, into Kurdish region of Iraq, and around the world.

Protests by tens of thousands of people over the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, have spread to over 80 cities across Iran and to every province, as well as into the Kurdish region of Iraq that borders…


Support Ukraine independence!
Putin’s troops out of all of Ukraine!

Vol. 86/No. 37 - October 10, 2022
Thousands of Russians have fled since Putin imposed new draft. Above, mileslong line of cars at Georgia border. Left, Russian men at border seeking to avoid becoming cannon fodder for Moscow’s Ukraine war.

The determination of the Ukrainian people to prevent Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime from conquering their country was decisive in a series of battlefield victories won earlier this month in Kharkiv province. Putin’s response is to call up hundreds of…