NTSB: rail bosses caused East Palestine disaster

Vol. 88/No. 25 - July 8, 2024

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Nearly a year and a half after the Norfolk Southern train derailment and resulting catastrophe here, the National Transportation Safety Board returned June 24-25 to report that the railroad bosses bear full responsibility. Their faulty equipment,…


Correction

Vol. 88/No. 25 - July 8, 2024

The article “Rulers across Europe boost militaries, war preparations” in Militant issue no. 24 incorrectly said NATO’s base being expanded in Romania is at Ramstein. It is at Mihail Kogalniceanu air base.


25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 25 - July 8, 2024

July 12, 1999 NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia — “We must let them know that they can’t walk all over us any old way. What we do will make a difference to the other companies.” This is how Glenda Saunders, a pipefitter…


Endorse, build the SWP 2024 campaign

Vol. 88/No. 25 - July 8, 2024

With the presidential election nearly four months away, the capitalist rulers in the U.S. seek to convince working people our only choice is to pick a “lesser” evil between Donald Trump or Joseph Biden. But decades of workers subordinating our…


Are working people in Europe flocking to join the ‘far right’?

Vol. 88/No. 25 - July 8, 2024
Farmers from Beauvais march on Paris Jan. 29. Farmers across Europe have been protesting skyrocketing costs, heavy EU “climate change” taxes, loss of farm income. Voting for European Parliament June 6-9 reflected impact of capitalist crisis, war on working people.

Elections to the European Parliament June 6-9 saw heavy losses for governing capitalist parties that tens of millions of working people hold responsible for the worsening conditions they confront. The results reflect these crisis conditions, but they’re presented in the…




Join fight against ban on ‘Militant’ in Florida prison

Vol. 88/No. 25 - July 8, 2024

Support is building for the Militant’s fight against efforts by officials at Florida’s Jackson Correctional Institution to ban the paper, a violation of inmates’ constitutional rights and the right of the Militant to reach its subscribers behind bars. The Militant…


Nova festival exhibit shows reality of Hamas’ Oct. 7 pogrom

Vol. 88/No. 25 - July 8, 2024
Open Jew-hatred marked protest against Nova festival exhibit in New York June 10. Protesters claimed exhibit showing brutality of Hamas’ Oct. 7 pogrom was just “Zionist propaganda.”

NEW YORK — Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate Rachele Fruit and five campaign supporters June 19 toured an exhibit here — “October 7/6:29 a.m. The Moment Music Stood Still.” It graphically shows the truth about the anti-Jewish pogrom led by…


‘Hamas trafficked in Palestinian blood, ruined our lives’

Vol. 88/No. 25 - July 8, 2024

Increasing numbers of Gazans have begun to speak out against Hamas, holding the group responsible for hurling them into eight months of war with Israel and bringing death and destruction into their lives. “I do not want to sacrifice my…