Workers rally for a union at Amazon Air Hub in Kentucky

Vol. 87/No. 13 - April 3, 2023

FLORENCE, Ky. — “Who has the power? We have the power! What kind of power? Union power!” was one of the main chants by some 65 union supporters rallying March 18 outside the large and growing Amazon Air Hub at…


Vol. 87/No. 13 - April 3, 2023

Los Angeles school workers, teachers rally for new contract

Vol. 87/No. 13 - April 3, 2023

LOS ANGELES — Thousands of public school workers held a spirited rally here March 15 outside City Hall to demand the Los Angeles Unified School District negotiate a new contract. The rally was organized by Service Employees International Union Local…




Defend Ukraine independence!
Demand Moscow’s troops out now

Vol. 87/No. 13 - April 3, 2023
Crimean Tatars, the indigenous people there, protest Feb. 26, 2014, six days after Moscow used its troops to seize the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine. After the Kremlin tightened its repressive grip last year, Putin stopped there March 18 to try to legitimize annexation.

After a year of waging a near-genocidal war against the Ukrainian people, Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to put a facade of legitimacy on his regime’s seizure of almost a fifth of the country. He went to Moscow-occupied areas…


Join ‘Militant’ to extend reach of paper, books, $165,000 fund

Vol. 87/No. 13 - April 3, 2023

The international campaign to expand the reach of the Militant — by getting 1,350 subscriptions, selling 1,350 books by Socialist Workers Party and other revolutionary leaders, and raising $165,000 — has gotten off to a good start. When Alyson Kennedy,…


NY meeting: ‘End the US economic war against Cuba!’

Vol. 87/No. 13 - April 3, 2023
March 11 rally at Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Center in Harlem was part of two-day U.S.-Cuba Normalization Conference to build fight to end Washington’s punishing embargo.

NEW YORK — “Fidel Castro used to tell us, ‘If we had given in just once to the demands of the imperialists, the Cuban Revolution would not exist today. What has stayed their hand is the heroism of our people…


Erbil book fair opens in Kurdistan Region in Iraq

Vol. 87/No. 12 - March 27, 2023

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region, Iraq — Since the 15th Erbil International Book Fair kicked off March 8, tens of thousands have come looking for books on a wide range of topics — including history, politics, science, technology and religion — as…


Communists in Iran were in thick of popular revolution

Vol. 87/No. 12 - March 27, 2023

Below are excerpts from “Revolution, Counterrevolution and War in Iran, Social and Political Roots of Workers’ Protests That Swept 90 Cities and Small Towns,” from the Militant in April 2018. BY STEVE CLARK The historic Iranian Revolution of 1979 was…