Letters

Vol. 86/No. 31 - August 22, 2022

Delight with your article I want to express my sincere gratitude and delight at reading the excellently written Aug. 8 Militant article entitled “National Federation of Blind traces its aims, history, fight for rights.” Jane Roland and others captured the…


No to Democrats’ assaults on constitutional rights!

Vol. 86/No. 31 - August 22, 2022

The armed raid by the FBI, on the home of former President Donald Trump in Florida Aug. 8, deals blows to rights in the U.S. Constitution that provide vital protection against state interference in political and trade union activity. These…


‘Militant’ drive to win long-term readers goes over top!

Vol. 86/No. 30 - August 15, 2022

The Militant ’s summer drive to expand the paper’s long-term readership has gone over the top! The five-week international effort for renewals by members of the Socialist Workers Party in the U.S. and the Communist Leagues in Australia, New Zealand,…


Rail workers protest for jobs, pay, right to strike

Unions organize rally in Illinois, more planned
Vol. 86/No. 30 - August 15, 2022
Some 150 union members and supporters rally July 30 in Galesburg, Illinois, to protest drive by major U.S. rail bosses to impose contract to increase profits off workers’ backs.

GALESBURG, Ill. — More than 150 railroad workers, family members and their supporters joined in the “Galesburg Rally for Rail Labor” here July 30, one of a series of protests being organized by rail workers across the Midwest as part…


Support Ukraine independence! Russian troops get out now!

Vol. 86/No. 30 - August 15, 2022
“My neighbors fully support me,” Dmitry Skurikhin, inset, says. Roof of his shop in northwest Russia, July 19, is painted in Ukrainian colors. Under slogan, “Peace to Ukraine, freedom for Russia!” are names of “towns, cities of Ukraine suffering” from Russian military attacks. Police charged him several times, but he and his signs remain.

It is now more than five months since Russian President Vladimir Putin sent tens of thousands of troops storming into Ukraine to overthrow the elected government, seize the country and obliterate Ukraine as a nation. Ukrainian forces have resisted courageously…


SWP fights for right to be on the ballot in Pennsylvania

Vol. 86/No. 30 - August 15, 2022
Chris Hoeppner, SWP candidate for U.S. Congress from Philadelphia, talks with Theodore Ramsen, left, and Sedia Ali at farmers market July 16, two of the 2,422 who signed petition to put him on ballot. SWP is preparing to fight any effort by the state to deny SWP ballot status.

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania state authorities are laying the groundwork to deny ballot status for Chris Hoeppner, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress in Philadelphia’s 3rd District. A national effort is being launched by the SWP to prepare for…


UAW strikers at Case demand better pay, conditions

Vol. 86/No. 30 - August 15, 2022

STURTEVANT, Wis. — As negotiations are set to reopen between Case New Holland bosses and the United Auto Workers, whose members struck May 2, few on the union side of the table are ready to give in. “We’re not going…



Teamsters make gains in strike at FireKing in Indiana

Vol. 86/No. 30 - August 15, 2022

NEW ALBANY, Ind. — Teamsters Local 89 members at FireKing voted unanimously to ratify a five-year contract July 30 after a hard-fought 12-week strike. The new contract, described in a statement by the union, includes “a radically overhauled, low deductible…


Italian gov’t falls as rulers across Europe confront growing conflicts

Vol. 86/No. 30 - August 15, 2022
Taxi drivers protest working conditions in Rome July 13 outside office of former Prime Minister Mario Draghi. The Italian government collapsed, Draghi resigned July 21 amid EU tensions.

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi resigned, and his government coalition collapsed July 21, the same day the European Central Bank boosted interest rates, sharply raising the cost of loan repayments for the more heavily indebted capitalist powers across the southern…