In their drive to further boost already booming profits, health insurance bosses are jacking up monthly premiums by the most in 15 years, tightening the squeeze on working-class families as we confront a deepening capitalist economic crisis marked by high…
Days before callously killing 11 people on a speedboat in international waters off the coast of Venezuela Sept. 2, Washington carried out a rapid military buildup in the Caribbean that so far has amassed eight warships, several Navy P-8 surveillance…
DERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Honks and waves from drivers passing by show the widespread solidarity with striking workers picketing at the Pace Industries manufacturing plant here. Over 200 workers at the plant, members of Laborers’ International Union of North America…
EVENDALE, Ohio — “We are more unified now than ever. We’re getting union and community support. Last week Sean O’Brien, international president of the Teamsters union, joined our picket line,” Don Luknis, second shift safety committee person of United Auto…
HOOPESTON, Ill. — “We stuck together and stood strong and now we’re more united than we were before,” Beatrice Marmolejo told the Militant. She’s a forklift driver at Teasdale Latin Foods here, where 65 members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers…
The Special Treatment Unit at Avenel, New Jersey, sounds like a medical center. In fact it’s a prison facility where people are held indefinitely and without trial, after having already completed their full prison sentences on charges of rape and…
NEW YORK — “Increasing numbers of working people in the U.S. and worldwide can see that the imperialist ruling classes of the world are steadily marching humanity toward World War III, with everything that means in the age of nuclear…
The Israeli government is implementing its battle plans to defeat and disarm Hamas in Gaza. Decisively defeating Hamas is necessary to prevent the Nazi-like group from launching more pogroms. It will also remove Hamas’ boot from the neck of the…
MONTREAL — More than 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 4092, voted 99.1% to reject a wage offer in a tentative contract, the union announced Sept. 6. The workers went on strike…
Chinese President Xi Jinping presided over a massive parade of weaponry Sept. 3, alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and representatives of 23 other governments. The display was aimed at projecting…
