MONTREAL — Almost 10,000 rail engineers, conductors and dispatchers, members of the Teamsters union, walked off the job at 12:01 a.m. Aug. 22 after Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Kansas City railroads, Canada’s two cross-country rail lines, refused to sign…
“A sea of nurses across the country is demanding their rights,” the Tehran-based Iranian Labour News Agency reported Aug. 18. Their strike, which began in Karaj and Shiraz, has spread to dozens of hospitals, involving thousands. The nurses are demanding…
MANCHESTER, England — Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, met with rail workers fighting to win recognition for the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers union here Aug. 19. Israel Akanji and Festus Igho are gateline workers…
FORT WORTH, Texas — A lively discussion followed an Aug. 10 Militant Labor Forum I gave here as the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate, on why the working class needs its own party, a party of labor. Ysmemia…
While on a vacation in Hawaii, Socialist Workers Party campaign supporter Val Libby visited Maui, which was devastated one year ago by a wildfire caused by errors made by the power company there, driven by its thirst for profit. “Today…
Puerto Rico is in the heart of “hurricane alley” in the Caribbean and has been the target of many brutal storms over the years. In 2017 Hurricane Maria slammed into the island with 155 mph winds and torrential rain, right…
“Every class struggle is a political struggle.” With that statement Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, opened his report to an International Socialist Educational Conference in Oberlin, Ohio. “That’s a reality more and more workers in the…
The Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee has upheld the ban on Militant issue no. 17 that was put in place by the Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone nearly four months ago. More letters are needed in the fight…
Democrats and the liberal media are claiming that inflation has been conquered, but workers keep facing ever-higher prices on many essential items. And now working people also face a rise in layoffs. While the monthly pace of price increases has…
Ukrainian forces are still advancing more than two weeks after entering Russia’s western Kursk region Aug. 6. Kyiv is seeking ways to push back against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to use Moscow’s preponderant numbers and resources to advance his…
