Communist League candidates in Canada push to get on ballot

Vol. 86/No. 33 - September 12, 2022
Félix Vincent Ardea, left, Communist League candidate for Quebec National Assembly in Marquette, and Gabrielle Prosser, SWP candidate for governor of Minnesota, join picket line in solidarity with striking maritime workers at Ocean Towing in Sorel, Quebec, Aug. 16.

MONTREAL — The Communist League candidates in the Oct. 3 Quebec provincial elections — Katy LeRougetel and Félix Vincent Ardea — are winning a hearing from working people who are looking for a road forward in the face of today’s…


Join fall drive to get out the ‘Militant’

Vol. 86/No. 33 - September 12, 2022

In two weeks members of the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K. will launch an ambitious drive to further expand the reach of the Militant. Coupled with the bold use of SWP election…


Gibsons win another round!

Vol. 86/No. 33 - September 12, 2022

The Ohio Supreme Court in a 4-3 decision announced Aug. 30 that it had rejected hearing an appeal by Oberlin College and former Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo from lower court judgments holding them liable for a malicious race-baiting slander…


LA unionists bring solidarity to Corn Nuts strikers in Fresno

Vol. 86/No. 33 - September 12, 2022
Bakery workers on strike against Corn Nuts in Fresno. They’ve won solidarity, including Aug. 27 visit from BCTGM members who struck Rich’s Jon Donaire Desserts earlier this year in L.A.

FRESNO, Calif. — Striking bakery workers at Corn Nuts got an important boost of solidarity when nine fellow Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union members from Los Angeles traveled here Aug. 27 to join their picket line. “You…


Join Labor Day actions! Solidarity with union battles!

Vol. 86/No. 33 - September 12, 2022
Mental health workers strike Kaiser San Francisco hospital Aug. 15.

Unions are organizing Labor Day marches, rallies and picnics around Sept. 5 across the country, an important opportunity to spread the word about union struggles and build solidarity that is vital to bringing home victories. Workers today face a wide…


‘Conspiracy’ frame-up in Michigan is blow to rights

Vol. 86/No. 33 - September 12, 2022

The retrial of two men ensnared by FBI agents in an alleged “plot” to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ended in their conviction Aug. 23 on frame-up conspiracy charges. The scheme never came close to being acted on. The government…


Protests demand: ‘End US embargo against Cuba!’

Vol. 86/No. 33 - September 12, 2022
March against Washington’s embargo of Cuba, Aug. 27, 2022, in East Harlem, New York. U.S. rulers’ decades of economic aggression are aimed at strangling the socialist revolution in Cuba.

NEW YORK — Some 80 people participated in a spirited march and rally in East Harlem Aug. 27, protesting the over 60-year U.S. embargo of Cuba. The rally met at the First Spanish Methodist Church, known as the People’s Church,…



Support Ukraine independence! Demand Russian troops out now!

Vol. 86/No. 33 - September 12, 2022
Despite mass arrests against anti-war demonstrations across Russia, protests continue. In recent public action in square in Ufa, in the Volga region, Elmira Rahmatullina holds sign in Ukrainian colors of blue and yellow, saying, “Give them peace, and us, freedom of speech.”

Moscow’s murderous assault on Ukraine, aimed at destroying the country as an independent nation, annexing large hunks of it, especially its resources and productive capacity, and destroying the government in its capital, Kyiv, and other key cities, like Kharkiv, has…


Inflation, production slowdown hit workers, families in Europe

Vol. 86/No. 33 - September 12, 2022
Dockworkers in Verdi union protest in Hamburg, Germany, June 10, demand wage increase. Capitalist rulers in Europe call for “sacrifice” by working people as prices skyrocket.

The capitalist economic crisis unfolding today — rising prices combined with a downturn in manufacturing production — is heightening conflicts among rival powers that comprise the European Union and sharpening the strains tearing at the bloc of 27 governments. The…