Working people face continuing crisis of high prices, debts

Vol. 88/No. 31 - August 19, 2024

“This is the most money we’ve ever made and this is the brokest we’ve ever felt,” said Nicole Lewis, a mother of three who lives near Flint, Michigan, the Wall Street Journal reported July 30. Working as a medical assistant,…


Oppose US intervention in Venezuela

Vol. 88/No. 31 - August 19, 2024

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…


Rulers in Tehran threaten to widen Middle East war against Israel, Jews

Vol. 88/No. 31 - August 19, 2024
Family, friends at July 28 funeral for 12 Druze children killed day before by Hezbollah missile from Lebanon that hit soccer field in Majdal Shams in Israeli-ruled Golan Heights.

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…



Join fight against ban on ‘Militant’ in Florida prison

Vol. 88/No. 31 - August 19, 2024

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…


What Hiroshima shows about horrors of nuclear weapons

Vol. 88/No. 31 - August 19, 2024

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…


Canada rail workers fight for safety, demand right to strike

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024

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,…


Cuba celebrates July 26 in Sancti Spiritus

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024
Cuba celebrates July 26 in Sancti Spiritus

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…


Child care crisis facing working people worsens

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024

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…


Australia: Nurses in New South Wales rally for more pay, staffing

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024

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…