Year: 2023

Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, fund March 18-May 16 (week two)

Support East Palestine fight for control over the cleanup

Rail workers win victory against 1-person ‘crew’

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Solidarity with working people, farmers and small-business people who have been affected by the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment and their fight to win control over the cleanup and rebuilding here is being expressed through…

Defend crucial constitutional freedoms from gov’t assault

While New York City prosecutor Alvin Bragg pushes to indict former President Donald Trump on charges even he admits would be difficult to prove, federal prosecutors announced they plan to charge up to 1,200 more people in connection with the…

Defend Ukraine independence!
Moscow out of all of Ukraine!

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal efforts to conquer Ukraine have been deadlocked for months as a result of the courageous efforts of working people in Ukraine. The Russian rulers occupy almost a fifth of Ukraine but the front lines have…

Beet workers make gains in strike to stop attack by Spreckels bosses

BRAWLEY, Calif. —A lively picket line of some 100 workers on strike at the Spreckels Sugar Company sugar beet processing plant was met with honks of support from truckers, agricultural workers and others passing by. Workers at the warehouse in…

National farmers convention takes up crisis facing toilers on the land

SAN FRANCISCO — Some 475 farmers, ranchers and other members of the National Farmers Union held their 121st Anniversary Convention here March 5-7. The NFU includes capitalist, middle and working farmers. The presentations and discussions reflected the consequences of today’s…

Campaign to win ‘Militant,’ book readers, spring fund contributors

“You should go talk to the Murphys. They are very outspoken about the train derailment disaster here,” Tish McDevitt, a greenhouse worker in East Palestine, Ohio, told Socialist Workers Party members who were bringing solidarity and covering the response of…

Protest marks Lac-Mégantic disaster, land expropriations

FRONTENAC, Quebec — Some 70 workers, farmers, area residents and others turned out to a press conference here March 10 called by the Union of Agricultural Producers and the Union of Forestry Producers of Southern Quebec, which represents landowners who…

Militant Fighting Fund key to financing the paper

The Militant is 100% financed by its readers — workers, farmers and youth who think the paper’s coverage is crucial to help our class find a road forward against the attacks of the bosses, their government and their state. We…

Paris strike boosts fight against gov’t raising retirement age

PARIS — After two-and-a-half weeks on strike, workers at three garbage incinerators, including the Paprec Energies plant in Saint-Ouen, a northern suburb, returned to work March 24. The strike was part of the ongoing mass opposition to French President Emmanuel…