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…
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,…
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…
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…
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 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…
The following is an excerpt from an interview with SWP presidential candidate Rachele Fruit by Jillian Diamond that appeared in the Baltimore Jewish Times online May 17. It is slated to appear in the next print edition. BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES:…
In an important example of international working-class solidarity, SMART-TD, the largest rail workers union in the U.S., is asking union locals and members to help collect much-needed personal protective equipment for rail workers in war-torn Ukraine. In a letter posted…
To justify the bloody Oct. 7 massacre of Jews, apologists for Hamas claim that Israel is like South Africa before apartheid was overthrown in the 1990s. Blacks in South Africa fought to overthrow apartheid “by any means necessary,” therefore Palestinians…
In a May 15 report to Congress, Secretary of State Antony Blinken removed Cuba from the annual list of countries “not cooperating fully” with the U.S. on anti-terrorist efforts. Last year’s report had included Cuba along with Iran, North Korea,…
