In a flagrant violation of Venezuela’s sovereignty, Secretary of State Antony Blinken claims Washington has the right to decide the outcome of that country’s presidential election, calling opposition leader Edmundo González the winner. For over two decades, the U.S. rulers…
In the largest U.S.-Russia prisoner exchange since the Cold War, 24 prisoners flown in from seven countries were swapped at a Turkish airport Aug. 1. While Washington and its allies released one of Vladimir Putin KGB-styled regime’s most notorious assassins,…
In an Aug. 4 Financial Times column, Pilita Clark, an associate editor at the paper and Harvard graduate, joined the liberal chorus attacking Donald Trump’s vice presidential candidate, J.D. Vance, for comments he made in 2021 about “childless cat ladies.”…
Ramón Labañino, center, in July 2012 at Federal Correction Institution in Jesup, Georgia, poses with fellow Cuban prisoners he met there. He and the other four revolutionaries who made up the “Cuban Five” spent up to 16 years in U.S.…
MONTREAL — Chris Carbert and Anthony Olienick, participants in the trucker-organized 2022 Freedom Convoy against Ottawa’s job-threatening COVID vaccine mandates, were acquitted by a jury Aug. 2 of frame-up charges of “conspiring” to kill police. The courthouse in Lethbridge, Alberta,…
LONDON — Fast on the heels of its election victory, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government has taken steps to hone its defense of the interests of the U.K.’s capitalist rulers at home and abroad. Within days, Foreign Secretary David…
Earlier this year the Militant received a letter from Javier Perdomo, one of the millions of working people caught up by the “enormous machine for grinding people up” that is the U.S. criminal “justice” system. That quote comes from Ramón…
“This is the most money we’ve ever made and this is the brokest we’ve ever felt,” said Nicole Lewis, a mother of three who lives near Flint, Michigan, the Wall Street Journal reported July 30. Working as a medical assistant,…
In a highly polarized election in Venezuela July 28, incumbent President Nicolás Maduro was declared the winner by the head of the government’s National Electoral Council. The opposition and its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, refused to accept the ruling, claiming…
LOS ANGELES — Over the past few months a number of unions have voted to urge the U.S. government to remove Cuba from its State Sponsors of Terrorism list. At its July 16-17 convention, the 2.3 million-member California State AFL-CIO…
