ATLANTA — Fifty-one people attended a spirited meeting here April 19 to celebrate the life and political contributions of John Benson, a member and leader of the Socialist Workers Party for 64 years. Benson died March 6 after a brief…
Ban on Militant overturned in Tennessee Tennessee prison authorities informed the Militant’s attorney June 5 that the ban on the Militant in a prison there has been overturned. More in the next issue. The Militant is encouraging its readers to…
For more than four years, Ukrainian working people have fought courageously to protect their country’s sovereignty in the face of Moscow’s murderous assaults. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who claims Ukraine doesn’t exist as a real country, is incapable of understanding…
FORT MORGAN, Colo. — Some 1,700 Teamsters union members who work at the giant Cargill meat processing plant here were locked out by the company May 20. The unionists had rejected the company’s so-called last and best contract offer by…
The conflicting interests of Washington and Israel are clearer than ever as the Donald Trump administration pushes to reach a deal with the Iranian regime. Washington’s war on Iran and its on-again, off-again negotiations with Tehran are both aimed at…
On May 20 the U.S. Justice Department filed charges against Cuban leader Raúl Castro and five Cuban pilots for murder, conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals and destruction of U.S. civilian aircraft. The case revolves around a 1996 downing of two…
The following statement was released May 26 by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, on behalf of the party’s National Committee. The Socialist Workers Party, in the strongest possible terms, condemns the U.S. rulers’ accelerating acts of…
MARTINEZ, Calif. — Members of United Steelworkers Local 5 at Marathon Petroleum’s Martinez Renewables plant here are holding the line as they enter the second month on strike. Their picket line was expanded on Memorial Day by strikers’ families and…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Behind a banner reading “Immigrants Are Not Disposable Workers,” some 30 migrant bus drivers held a lively rally here May 22 to win support for their fight to stay in the country. In 2023 hundreds of…
Washington’s April 23 indictment of Cuban revolutionary leader Raúl Castro and five Cuban air force pilots for “conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals” in the shoot down of two planes that invaded Cuban airspace in 1996 replays the frame-up that became…
