Four and a half years since its invasion began, Moscow’s stalled ground war and murderous bombardment of Ukrainian cities continue daily, but are failing to break the resistance of the Ukrainian people. Its escalating campaign targets civilian populations in residential…
“U.S. corporate profits surge to record as worker payouts wilt,” an Aug. 28 Financial Times headline said, pointing to the deepening class divisions under capitalist rule today. Increasing numbers of workers face greater difficulties in making ends meet, while for…
MINNEAPOLIS — Kevin Dwire, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from Minnesota, told participants in a well-attended Militant Labor Forum here Aug. 22 that working people and the unions need to speak out in protest against recent revelations of…
SAN FRANCISCO — Fifteen spirited pickets from UNITE HERE Local 2 chanted and banged on pots Aug. 16 outside Hotel Spero here, concluding a five-day strike. The workers have been without a contract for four years. In March the hotel…
In a blow to constitutional rights, a U.S. Court of Appeals in Florida Aug. 5 upheld the government’s use of the notorious Foreign Agents Registration Act, adopted in 1938 as part of the U.S. rulers’ drive to enter the second…
1,000s attend events in Cuba to back its nat’l sovereignty HAVANA — Thousands of people across Cuba paid tribute to the revolution’s central leader, Fidel Castro, Aug. 13 on the 100th anniversary of his birth. Here in the capital, the…
While Washington tightens its brutal economic blockade of Iran, Tehran is retaliating with attacks on commercial ships near the Strait of Hormuz and threatening to strike oil facilities and other economic and military sites of U.S. allies in the Middle…
The Militant urges its readers to stand side by side with the Cuban people against Washington’s oil blockade, expanding sanctions and threats of invasion! Workers and our unions should demand the unconditional end of the U.S. rulers’ decades-long economic and…
NEW YORK — More than 125 people marched in the Bronx here Aug. 16 demanding independence for Puerto Rico. Thousands marched in similar actions in Puerto Rico and cities in the U.S. over the last month. Speakers pointed to the…
Like battles against Jim Crow segregation across the South and elsewhere, the 1963-64 struggle in Cambridge, Maryland, was marked by the courage of its participants standing up to cops, racist mobs and the National Guard. It was also marked by…
