China’s state capitalist rulers are suffering through a yearslong slowdown in economic growth, at the same time that they confront mounting competition with rival capitalist powers, above all, Washington. As economic conditions worsen, millions of working people in China are…
Prison authorities at the Lower Buckeye Jail in Phoenix — the largest detention facility in Arizona — banned the Nov. 11, 2024, issue of the Militant. The Militant is appealing the ruling, asking supporters of civil liberties and prisoners’ political…
On Jan. 14, President Joseph Biden filed a “Certificate of Rescission of Cuba’s Designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism.” It stated, “The Government of Cuba has not provided any support for international terrorism during the preceding 6-month period” and…
The overthrow of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, hastened by Israel’s blows to Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, has dealt blows to the reactionary bourgeois regime in Iran and its allies throughout the region. Israel and Hamas are reported…
In a serious assault on constitutional rights, the New Jersey state Assembly voted up a bill Dec. 19 that would more than double petitioning requirements for the Socialist Workers Party and others who aren’t candidates of the bosses’ two main…
In Militant issue no. 1, the article, “Culture flourishes in Ukraine while artists, actors are jailed in Russia,” should have said that “Three Comrades,” a play by Yevhen Nyshchuk, was adapted from Erich Maria Remarque’s post-World War I novel of…
January 17, 2000 Leading up to the new millennium, Washington issued a number of “worldwide terrorism warnings” as it beefed up the cops at its border. In the name of combating “Islamic terrorism,” the U.S. rulers show utter contempt for…
Millions of working people are being drawn into world politics today amid the deepening crisis shaking the imperialist system. It has led to trade and military conflicts between rival ruling classes and their governments; Moscow’s drive to subjugate the Ukrainian…
LAS VEGAS — “Give us the same as the other hotels,” pickets chanted in front of Virgin Hotels Las Vegas Jan. 6. Some 700 members of Culinary Workers Union Local 226 — guest-room attendants, cocktail and food servers, porters, bellmen,…
LOS ANGELES — After many meetings in recent months, the Los Angeles City Council voted Dec. 11 to increase the minimum wage for more than 23,000 workers in the sizable tourism industry here to $30 an hour by July 2028.…
