‘Back Puerto Ricans’ fight against US colonial rule!’

Vol. 88/No. 25 - July 8, 2024
Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, testifies in defense of fight by Puerto Rican people to throw off U.S. colonial oppression at U.N. hearing June 20.

Decolonization panel votes to back Puerto Rico struggle UNITED NATIONS — “As we speak, thousands of Puerto Ricans remain without electrical power and potable water due to recent collapses of segments of infrastructure. The U.S. government does nothing about it,”…


Communist League in UK campaigns for party of labor

Vol. 88/No. 25 - July 8, 2024

LONDON — “Nothing fundamental will change for working people and youth whatever the outcome” of the July 4 general election, said Peter Clifford, Communist League candidate in the Manchester Rusholme constituency. He was responding to questions from Manchester University Students’…


NTSB: rail bosses caused East Palestine disaster

Vol. 88/No. 25 - July 8, 2024

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Nearly a year and a half after the Norfolk Southern train derailment and resulting catastrophe here, the National Transportation Safety Board returned June 24-25 to report that the railroad bosses bear full responsibility. Their faulty equipment,…


Correction

Vol. 88/No. 25 - July 8, 2024

The article “Rulers across Europe boost militaries, war preparations” in Militant issue no. 24 incorrectly said NATO’s base being expanded in Romania is at Ramstein. It is at Mihail Kogalniceanu air base.


25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 25 - July 8, 2024

July 12, 1999 NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia — “We must let them know that they can’t walk all over us any old way. What we do will make a difference to the other companies.” This is how Glenda Saunders, a pipefitter…


Endorse, build the SWP 2024 campaign

Vol. 88/No. 25 - July 8, 2024

With the presidential election nearly four months away, the capitalist rulers in the U.S. seek to convince working people our only choice is to pick a “lesser” evil between Donald Trump or Joseph Biden. But decades of workers subordinating our…


Are working people in Europe flocking to join the ‘far right’?

Vol. 88/No. 25 - July 8, 2024
Farmers from Beauvais march on Paris Jan. 29. Farmers across Europe have been protesting skyrocketing costs, heavy EU “climate change” taxes, loss of farm income. Voting for European Parliament June 6-9 reflected impact of capitalist crisis, war on working people.

Elections to the European Parliament June 6-9 saw heavy losses for governing capitalist parties that tens of millions of working people hold responsible for the worsening conditions they confront. The results reflect these crisis conditions, but they’re presented in the…




Join fight against ban on ‘Militant’ in Florida prison

Vol. 88/No. 25 - July 8, 2024

Support is building for the Militant’s fight against efforts by officials at Florida’s Jackson Correctional Institution to ban the paper, a violation of inmates’ constitutional rights and the right of the Militant to reach its subscribers behind bars. The Militant…