Some 45,000 dockworkers, members of the International Longshoremen’s Association who work at ports from Maine to Texas, are preparing to hit the streets Oct. 1 if a new contract isn’t in place. It’s one of three sizable labor battles shaping…
TRENTON, N.J. — Supporters of Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, filed 1,642 signatures, more than twice the requirement, to get on the ballot in New Jersey at the state Division of Elections in Trenton July 19.…
MINNEAPOLIS — Rachele Fruit, the SWP candidate for president, brought solidarity to striking park workers here, members of the Laborers’ International Union of North America, at Minnehaha Falls park July 21. The strike is in its third week as the…
After brutally suppressing political protests against his war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin is now intensifying his crackdown on culture and artistic creativity. “Censorship and repression is now at levels resembling those in the post-Stalin years of the later…
July marks the 90th anniversary of the 1934 Teamsters strikes in Minneapolis that won union recognition for General Drivers Local 574 and paved the way for successful union battles throughout that city and region. The lessons of this fight, led…
As we go to press, the Militant is still waiting information from the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee on the outcome of its July 18 hearing. On the agenda was the paper’s appeal of the banning of Militant…
In retaliation for a drone attack targeting civilians that killed one person in a Tel Aviv apartment building and wounded nine others July 19, the Israeli air force struck fuel tanks and a power plant in the Houthi-controlled port city…
The French edition of The First and Second Declarations of Havana: Manifestos of Revolutionary Struggle in the Americas Adopted by the Cuban People is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. This coincides with the July 26 anniversary…
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Dennis Richter, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, center rear, joined several campaign supporters at the Capitol here July 16 to file 1,138 certified signatures to place Rachele Fruit, the party’s presidential candidate, and…
OAKLAND, Calif. — On July 13 Eric Simpson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress in California’s District 12, delivered a letter of solidarity to Chabad of Oakland and joined worshipers in a meal there after their Shabbat service. Vandals…
