Freedom Convoy trials are attack on rights in Canada

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024
Truckers protest in Ottawa, Canada’s capital, Feb. 8, 2022, calling for an end to government pandemic restrictions threatening their livelihoods. Trudeau government put Freedom Convoy leaders on trial despite court ruling its use of the anti-labor Emergencies Act was illegal.

MONTREAL — Despite a strong ruling by Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley earlier this year saying Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government invoking the draconian Emergencies Act to crush a truckers’ protest in 2022 was unconstitutional and illegal, the trials of…


‘Break with the bosses’ parties and build a party of labor’

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024
Nurse Layla Bashir, left, speaks with Rachele Fruit, SWP candidate for president, signed to put her on Minnesota ballot July 22. Democrats and Republicans have no serious answers to social crisis working people face, while SWP campaign program gets a real response.

‘Why should I sign for the Socialist Workers Party?’ MINNEAPOLIS — “Hello! If this has anything to do with elections, I want to know what you are doing,” said Layla Bashir, waving Rachele Fruit over to her car outside a Target…


SWP gathers electors to get on ballot in Louisiana

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024
Dennis Richter, right, SWP candidate for vice president, brought solidarity to National Nurses United picket in contract fight July 17 at University Medical Center in New Orleans.

BOSSIER City, La. — Supporters of Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, and her running mate, Dennis Richter, campaigned from one end of Louisiana to the other July 16-23. Richter joined the campaign volunteers to bring what…


US rulers push to reestablish stability in two party setup

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024
Presidential candidate Donald Trump with running mate J.D. Vance at Republican National Convention July 15. Trump demagogically pitches Republican campaign to “forgotten” working people.

For the first time in years, the capitalist rulers in the U.S. are making progress in reestablishing a measure of stability in the decades-old two-party political system. This doesn’t mean they have any answers to the economic and social crisis…


Drug prices soar as inflation ravages the working class

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024
Despite having insurance, Jeni Rae Peters in Rapid City, South Dakota, faces over $30,000 of debt in 2020, and threats from bill collectors, after paying for drugs to treat cancer. Some 25% of cancer patients in the U.S. are forced to declare bankruptcy or lose their homes.

While Democrats and the liberal media are heralding a government report saying the average monthly inflation rate is falling, prices on a broad range of essential goods working people need remain stubbornly high, and they’re not coming down. This reality…


July 26: Building the leadership to make Cuba’s socialist revolution

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024
Leaders of July 26, 1953, attack on Cuban dictator’s Moncada military garrison, including, from left, Raúl Castro, Juan Almeida and Fidel Castro, leave Isle of Pines prison, May 15, 1955.

Seventy-one years ago on July 26, workers and youth, led by Fidel Castro, attacked the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba and the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Garrison in Bayamo, opening the battle for Cuba’s socialist revolution. Without fear of…



Tehran’s allies expand drone, missile attacks on Jews, Israel

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024
Tel Aviv apartment damaged by Houthi drone attack July 19. Houthis, like Hamas and others in Tehran’s “axis of resistance,” seek to impose Hitler’s “Final Solution” on Jews in Israel.

In retaliation for a drone attack targeting civilians that killed one person in a Tel Aviv apartment building and wounded nine others July 19, the Israeli air force struck fuel tanks and a power plant in the Houthi-controlled port city…


Join fight against Florida prison ban on the ‘Militant’!

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024

As we go to press, the Militant is still waiting information from the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee on the outcome of its July 18 hearing. On the agenda was the paper’s appeal of the banning of Militant…


1934 Minneapolis Teamsters strikes: Lessons for workers today

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024
Teamsters Local 574 leader announces May 1934 Minneapolis truck drivers strike has ended in victory. After bosses reneged on the contract, workers struck again in mid-July and won.

July marks the 90th anniversary of the 1934 Teamsters strikes in Minneapolis that won union recognition for General Drivers Local 574 and paved the way for successful union battles throughout that city and region. The lessons of this fight, led…