DETROIT — Some 35 striking Marathon Petroleum workers, members of Teamsters Local 283, picketed outside the main refinery entrance here Sept. 16. The 273 union members had voted by 95% to strike. Their picket signs read, “Our patience for a…
NEW YORK — Independent truckers active in a fight for better pay and working conditions in the oil-producing Permian Basin, in western Texas, traveled here to hold a protest outside the headquarters of investment management company BlackRock Sept. 18. They…
With the Nov. 5 election just about six weeks away, the capitalist rulers are redoubling their efforts to convince working people we have no choice but to hold our nose and pick the “lesser evil” between Vice President Kamala Harris…
Ukrainian forces launched a second incursion into the Russian Federation Sept. 12, 20 miles west of their thrust into the Kursk region five weeks earlier. Ukrainian tanks and troops took the town of Vesoloe, again scatterng poorly prepared and unmotivated…
EAST POINT, Ga. — Several striking Communications Workers of America members on the picket line here welcomed Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, Sept. 13. They explained why more than 17,000 CWA members who work for…
The reactionary capitalist regime in Iran prevented the family of Zhina “Mahsa” Amini from holding a commemoration at her graveside in Saqqez on the second anniversary of her death. But thousands of small businesses and workers went on strike across…
As the one-year anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 pogrom against Jews in Israel approaches, Israeli forces keep making progress in dismantling the Nazi-like group, while dealing blows to Hezbollah in Lebanon. The goal of both Tehran-financed groups is to destroy…
I really got a lot out of the feature article in the Sept. 2 issue of the Militant, “Forging a proletarian party in the class struggle today: Socialist Workers Party uses Marxist program and party’s experiences to set course.” I…
MONTREAL — An unprecedented yearlong “free speech” frame-up trial of Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two spokespersons for the 2022 truckers’ Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa, ended Sept. 13. Justice Heather Perkins-McVey has six months to deliver her verdict. If…
Women and the Cuban Revolution is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. It includes speeches and documents by Fidel Castro, the central leader of Cuba’s socialist revolution; Vilma Espín, the founding leader of the Federation of Cuban…
