In an important victory for constitutional rights, a jury in Bellaire, Michigan, acquitted three men Sept. 15 who had been accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. It was the final court proceeding in a three-year…
Striking autoworkers taking on the bosses at the Big Three got a big boost from the SMART-TD union of rail conductors, brakemen and engineers, the largest rail union. “What we can do, in addition to not crossing the picket lines…
WAYNE, Mich. — “There has been a huge hiring at this plant since 2020 — 1,500 to 1,700 workers, all young people starting out at $16.65 an hour. Many of them with families, and they can’t afford much,” Steve Kovich,…
From the Escambray to the Congo: In the Whirlwind of the Cuban Revolution by Víctor Dreke is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. As a high school student, Dreke joined Cuba’s revolutionary movement, then became a Rebel…
The Socialist Workers Party’s fall campaign to win 1,350 subscribers to the Militant, sell 1,350 books by party leaders and other revolutionaries and raise $140,000 for the SWP Party-Building Fund is off and running! We’re asking our readers to join…
Black lung, a devastating and often fatal disease caused by prolonged exposure to dust that scars lung tissue, has been on the rise among coal miners over the past two decades, as the bosses’ drive for profits comes at the…
ATLANTA — Just weeks after former President Donald Trump and 18 of his political associates were indicted here on Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization charges, 61 opponents of the construction of an Atlanta police- and firefighting-training facility were charged with…
NEW YORK — “Fight for jobs for all workers! Build the unions! A working-class response to the ‘migration crisis’” was the topic of a lively discussion at the Militant Labor Forum here Sept. 16. Speaking for the Socialist Workers Party…
The Democrats’ seven-year-long relentless campaign to drive Donald Trump out of politics and bar him from running for president in 2024 is becoming more frantic as the primaries come nearer. President Joseph Biden’s Justice Department and Democratic prosecutors in Georgia…
TOLEDO, Ohio — There is a working-class battle taking place in the auto industry today that all workers should support. Some 13,000 United Auto Workers’ members went on strike Sept. 15 at the Ford plant in Wayne, Michigan; General Motors…
