NEW YORK — Persistently high rents and home mortgage prices make it increasingly difficult for working people to live here. And workers face similar situations in growing numbers of cities and rural areas across the country. “Why ‘Affordable Housing’ in…
BEVERLY, Mass. — Over 1,400 public school teachers here and in the nearby towns of Gloucester and Marblehead on the North Shore are in their second week of strikes. Members of the Beverly Teachers Association and Union of Gloucester Educators…
Israeli blows to Hezbollah in Lebanon have been so devastating that the Jew-hating group — and its backers in Tehran — made it clear Nov. 18 that they are willing to withdraw to some 20 miles north of Israel’s border…
LOS ANGELES — “Given the events over the last couple days, it is necessary to begin this forum by describing the virulent attack on Jews in Amsterdam Nov. 7, and what it portends,” Norton Sandler, a member of the Socialist…
MONTREAL — Some 55,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers went on strike across Canada Nov. 15, fighting for better wages and livable work conditions. Negotiations have dragged on since Nov. 15, 2023. “Canada Post left us no…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has stepped up the pace of his invading forces’ drive to seize more territory in the Donetsk region of Ukraine through “meat wave” frontal assaults. The Ukrainian defenders, stretched and outgunned but motivated and determined to…
“End this damned war, which has taken so many innocent lives,” an elderly man says in an online video clip, blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin for the situation he and those standing with him find themselves in. He stands in…
SPALDING, England — Now into the eighth week of their strike, hundreds of Unite union members at the Bakkavor food factory here voted by 81% to reject the bosses’ latest pay offer. The workers walked out Sept. 27 after rejecting…
The Militant extends a warm welcome to the 1,316 readers who subscribed to the paper over the past eight weeks, part of a successful campaign to extend the reach of the paper, get out books by revolutionary working-class leaders and…
