“I need this paper,” school teacher Juawana Kinnard told Socialist Workers Party member Anthony Dutrow as they sat on her porch in Cincinnati and she signed up to renew her Militant subscription July 8. “All the other news I see…
OAKLAND, Calif. — Some 400 truck drivers, mostly independent owner-operators, began a three-day strike July 18 at the Port of Oakland. They are protesting AB5, a law passed by the California legislature in 2019, that puts extra burdens on owner-operators…
LINCOLN, Neb. — On July 14 the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Division (SMART-TD) informed their members, the rail conductors and locomotive engineers who operate freight trains on the major railroads…
President Joseph Biden’s July 13-16 trip to the Middle East revealed the weakened state of U.S. imperialism and the inability of the Biden administration to achieve gains for the U.S. capitalist rulers against their rivals. For decades the Iranian rulers…
Thousands of protesters occupying the residence of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the office of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe handed the buildings back to the government July 14 after Rajapaksa fled to Singapore and resigned. The occupation of the…
LOS ANGELES — On June 10 Smithfield Foods announced the closure of its Farmer John plant near here in Vernon, which slaughters almost 2 million hogs a year. Smithfield is owned by Hong Kong-based WH Group Ltd., the largest pork…
On July 9 Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced another round of visa restrictions, barring 28 Cuban officials, including high-ranking members of the Cuban Communist Party, from being able to travel to the U.S. to participate in trade and political…
NEW ALBANY, Ind. — Spirits were high on the picket line in front of the FireKing plant here July 14 where 83 members of Teamsters Local 89 have been on strike since May 9. This Militant worker-correspondent visited the pickets…
STURTEVANT, Wis. — “Case is in trouble, and they know it,” said Anthony Ford, one of 1,100 workers, members of United Auto Workers Locals 180 and 807, who struck the agricultural implement giant here and in Burlington, Iowa, May 2.…
AKRON, Ohio — Hundreds came to the Civic Theatre here July 13 to pay their respects to Jayland Walker. A DoorDash driver with no criminal record, Walker, 25, died June 27 when eight police officers fired dozens of shots at…
