EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — On Feb. 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern train derailed here, dumping 38 cars on the ground, including 11 full of toxic chemicals. A massive fire lit up this small town. Over the objections of the company…
Issue no. 2 of the Militant, dated Jan. 20, 2025, has been banned at Santa Rosa Correctional Institution in Milton, Florida. A letter sent to the paper from a subscriber there said it “was impounded for no reason.” He attached…
February 24 marks the opening of the fourth year of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale war against the people of Ukraine. Ten days before, a drone strike, which Kyiv blamed on Moscow, hit the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant in…
Despite the unstable ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon the key questions — Israel’s dismantling of Hamas so it cannot carry out more bloody pogroms against Jews, as well as Israel preventing Tehran from getting nuclear weapons — remain unresolved. This…
For the 60th commemoration of the assassination of Malcolm X, Feb. 21, 1965, the Militant is featuring a selection from Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party.…
“We can win working people to get behind the fight for a society where all workers in the U.S. are welcome and join together to defend our class interests against capitalist exploitation,” Eric Simpson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor…
February 28, 2000 HAVANA — “We are here because we have no choice but to learn how to fight, and we want to learn from those who know how to fight,” Eddie Slaughter told an official of the Cuban small…
From time to time, parties on the left and more often on the right of capitalist politics try to sell workers on the virtues of “smaller and cheaper government.” But the growing size of the capitalist state is an inevitable…
Weekly protests by retirees from the oil, steel, telecommunications and sugar industries, along with retired teachers and other workers who find it impossible to make ends meet, have been taking place across Iran for well over a year and are…
