MONTREAL — “I have a straightforward, realistic program — workers in our millions should take power into our hands,” Dennis Richter, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, told 32 people at a Militant Labor Forum here Sept. 28.…
Over the last few weeks Israeli forces have decimated the leadership of Tehran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, killing its longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah; destroying thousands of its rocket launchers; disrupting much of its communication systems; and began pushing it out of…
MIAMI — As daylight broke Sept. 27, Floridians in the Big Bend area around Tampa awoke to devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene, a Category 4 storm. With water levels surging 15 feet above ground level, it hit Steinhatchee and other…
Some 45,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association went on strike Oct. 1, shutting down three dozen ports from Maine to Texas. It’s the union’s first strike since 1977. Forty percent of U.S. imports come through these ports. Like tens…
RENTON, Wash. — “Solidarity really works,” David Forsythe, a retired engineer at Boeing, told the Militant on the picket line here Sept. 27. “This is one of those rare instances in life when you have a chance to do the…
“Amnesty International USA is once again calling on the Literature Review Committee to overturn the impoundment decision by Jackson Correctional Institution authorities of the Vol. 88, No. 17 issue of the Militant,” Justin Mazzola, deputy director of research, wrote on…
Government officials, the Kamala Harris election campaign and the liberal big-business media repeatedly claim inflation is a thing of the past. All is well. However, working-class families still face crippling high prices for necessities like food, gas, housing, health care…
Ernst Neizvestny was a Russian sculptor whose modernist works, despite determined efforts by the Stalinist officialdom of the time to suppress them, left a tribute that stands today to the memory of millions thrown into labor camps or killed resisting…
After a two-week strike, auto parts workers at BorgWarner in Lansing, New York, overwhelmingly voted up an improved contract offer Sept. 21. The over 700 members of Teamsters Local 317 voted 539-60 to accept a four-year agreement that increased wages…
SYDNEY — Nurses and midwives in New South Wales public hospitals went on a 24-hour strike Sept. 24 as they stepped up their campaign for a new union contract, including an immediate 15% wage increase. Over 10,000 marched and rallied…
