Year: 2022

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

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…

Protests in Iran, worldwide hit death of Mahsa Amini

Tehran’s ‘morality police’ harass, brutalize women

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…

Workers in Tunisia protest inflation, food shortages

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…

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

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…

SWP campaigns to back labor battles, expand readership of the ‘Militant’

Members of the Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K. have kicked off the eight-week campaign to sell 1,350 Militant  subscriptions, the same number of books and pamphlets that offer a revolutionary road forward, and…

Oppose FBI attack on Cuba Solidarity Committee

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…

White House acts to refurbish FBI, target rights workers need

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…

25,000 Ukrainian children made ill by Chernobyl treated by internationalist Cuba

On April 26, 1986, an explosion blew apart the top of reactor No. 4 at the Soviet nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, in Ukraine, releasing huge amounts of radiation into the atmosphere. More than 2,000 square miles of Ukraine, Belarus…

Join fight for amnesty for all immigrants living in the US!

Republican governors in Arizona, Florida and Texas have been sending busloads of migrants who’ve crossed the Mexican border to liberal northern “sanctuary” cities, saying authorities there should be glad to get them. Democratic mayors, like New York’s Eric Adams, and…

Lebanese toilers seek their money after banks freeze funds

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…