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…
The Israeli people are preparing to defend themselves from threatened new assaults from the reactionary capitalist regime in Iran and its allies, including Hezbollah and other groups in the “axis of resistance.” As the Militant goes to press these attacks…
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…
More letters are needed to urge the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee to reverse the ban of Militant issue no. 17 imposed by prison authorities at Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone. It’s been over three months since this…
Hamas’ Oct. 7 Jew-hating pogrom in Israel killing some 1,200 people in a single day and Moscow’s murderous invasion and war on the Ukrainian people mark a watershed in world politics. Capitalist rulers worldwide are preparing for future wars, jacking…
MONTREAL — Rail workers across Canada are awaiting the decision of the Canada Industrial Relations Board on their right to strike. The 9,300 conductors, engineers, yard workers and dispatchers at both the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Kansas City railroads,…
Thousands of Cubans gathered in Sancti Spiritus July 26 to celebrate the 71st anniversary of the rebel assault led by Fidel Castro on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes garrisons in 1953. It was the beginning of constructing a…
The crisis of child care for the working class has worsened since the government’s $24 billion pandemic relief program ended last September. Pressures are increasing, especially on women, to quit work in order to look after children, while the rise…
SYDNEY — Nurses and midwives rallied outside public hospitals across New South Wales July 23-24. Members of the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association are demanding an immediate 15% pay raise. “We are calling for fairness,” Fran Cavallaro, who works at…
The story of a Ukrainian author, Volodymyr Vakulenko, executed by invading Russian forces in March 2022 — and the discovery and publication of his hidden journal by his father and a fellow writer — sheds light on the depth of…
