Nurses protest after gov’t cancels union contracts at VA hospitals

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025

DECATUR, Ga. — Nurses and their supporters rallied outside the Department of Veteran Affairs hospital here Aug. 12 protesting the termination of their union contract and proposed cuts in staffing. “On Aug. 6, the government canceled our union contract,” Florence…


Workers discuss fight for safety after US Steel plant explosion

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025

CLAIRTON, Pa. — “It was a gas leak alright,” Larry Evans told the Militant in Elizabeth, near the giant U.S. Steel Coke Works here, where a deadly explosion killed two union steelworkers and injured 10 others Aug. 11. “They preach…


U.S. gov’t escalates attack on Cuba’s int’l medical missions

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025
Cuban doctors train at health clinic in Brasilia, Brazil, in 2013, part of the Mais Medicos program there. Doctors, nurses from Cuba have treated millions in municipalities across Brazil.

In the latest move by Washington to tighten its brutal economic war against Cuba, the U.S. government revoked visas from officials in Brazil who had helped expand Cuba’s international medical missions there. Since 1963 Cuba’s revolutionary government has organized doctors…


Protests continue to grow in Iran following the 12-day war

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025
Oil workers protesting in Gachsaran, Iran Aug. 17, hold photo of Saber Asayesh, who died because of company disdain for workers’ lives, denial of heath care to contract workers.

The reactionary regime in Iran arrested some 21,000 people during and after the 12-day war with Israel in June, setting up more than 1,000 roadblocks across the country in a crackdown on “crime” and political dissidents, a police department spokesperson…


Azerbaijan, Armenia deal shows waning reach of Moscow

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025

President Donald Trump met with government leaders from Azerbaijan and Armenia at the White House Aug. 8 and they signed a joint declaration aimed at ending nearly four decades of conflict and wars between the two former Soviet republics. The…


Attacks, discrimination against Jews on rise in Canada

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025

MONTREAL — Since Hamas’ murderous Oct. 7, 2023, pogrom in Israel, attacks on Jews in Canada have grown. B’nai Brith Canada reports 6,219 incidents of Jew-hatred across the country in 2024, more than double the number in 2022. The attacks…



The road to end imperialist war, Jew-hatred

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025

The wars that followed Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, pogrom against Jews in Israel and Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine the year before are front lines in the class struggle. Workers have big stakes in backing Israel’s war to prevent Tehran-backed Hamas…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025

August 28, 2000 NEW YORK — “CWA! CWA! CWA!” chanted a sea of 8,000 red-shirted strikers bearing banners and signs in a militant and spirited mobilization here outside the national headquarters of Verizon Communications August 10. The show of force…


‘Fight for a workers gov’t to prevent another world war’

Vol. 89/No. 30 - August 25, 2025
Philippe Tessier, Communist League candidate for mayor of Saint Leonard, speaks in Montreal Aug. 9, with, from left, Kevin Dwire, SWP Minneapolis mayoral candidate; Katy LeRougetel, CL candidate for mayor of Montreal; Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for New Jersey governor.

MONTREAL — Campaigning together here Aug. 8-9 were Katy LeRougetel, Communist League candidate for mayor of Montreal; Philippe Tessier, CL candidate for mayor of Saint Leonard; Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New Jersey; and Kevin Dwire,…