Richter joins locked-out Boeing firefighters’ picket

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024
SWP vice presidential candidate Dennis Richter, left, on Boeing firefighters’ picket May 13.

SEATTLE — Dennis Richter, Rachele Fruit’s running mate as Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, joined International Association of Fire Fighters Local I-66 members at their picket line outside Boeing’s factory gates here May 13. Some 125 firefighters at…


Join fight to overturn ban on ‘Militant’ in Florida prison

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024

Prison officials in Florida have banned an issue of the Militant in violation of inmates’ constitutional rights and the right of the Militant to reach its subscribers behind bars. Aided by the Militant’s attorney, David Goldstein, we are fighting to…


Support Israel’s fight to defeat Hamas, prevent more pogroms

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024
Aftermath of Hamas’ slaughter of 370 Jews and others at Nova music festival in Israel, part of Oct. 7 pogrom that killed 1,200 people overall. More than 40 of the hostages Hamas seized were at the festival. “Everything we do is justified,” says Hamas leader Ghazi Hamad, inset.

With their move into Rafah, Israeli forces are making progress in the fight to dismantle Hamas in Gaza, an absolute necessity to prevent the Tehran-backed group from carrying out its threats to keep massacring Jews “again and again.” Since May…



UAW wins 44% in first union vote at Mercedes, workers vow to fight on

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024

Following the victorious United Auto Workers unionization campaign by workers at the Volkswagen auto plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in April, workers at Mercedes-Benz in Vance, Alabama, voted down representation by the UAW by 56% — 2,642 to 2,045 “Of course…


As Trump trial in NY winds down, judge steps up attacks on rights

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024

Democrats desperately hope the outcome of the frame-up trial of Donald Trump they have engineered in New York will be successful and advance their seven-year-long drive to bring him down. Over that time they’ve fabricated claims he colluded with Moscow,…


Russian forces suffer big losses in human wave attacks on Kharkiv

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024
Maksym Timchenko, 7, raises his hand for his teacher Liudmyla Demchenko to call on him at class inside subway station in Kharkiv, under constant bombardment. Schools and other facilities have been forced underground as city’s residents defy Moscow’s assault.

Moscow’s troops are suffering heavy losses during an offensive launched May 10 in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region. Russian President Vladimir Putin is seeking to extend the front lines of the largest ground war in Europe since World War II and…


Canadian rulers push new laws to further restrict political rights

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024
Under Canadian government’s Emergencies Act, police pepper-sprayed protesting truckers in Ottawa, Feb. 19, 2022. Justin Trudeau administration is advancing new attacks on rights.

MONTREAL — The Canadian government of Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has introduced Bills 70 and 63 before Parliament. If adopted, they would deal further blows to the political rights of working people. These attacks are the latest steps taken…


Sign up to endorse the Rachele Fruit campaign!

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024

Endorsements for Rachele Fruit’s campaign for U.S. president have begun to arrive at the Militant. After hearing her running mate, Dennis Richter, speak at a campaign meeting in Minneapolis May 15, Ned Neterval endorsed. “It’s the only campaign that has…


Welcome to new readers from the ‘Militant’

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024

Welcome to the 1,355 new and renewing readers to the Militant! We work hard to bring you news, political analysis and lessons from the continuity of the working-class movement every week, to chart a course toward workers organizing in our…