Victory! Ban on ‘Militant’ in Texas prison retracted

Vol. 90/No. 13 - April 6, 2026

The Militant and its readers scored a victory March 23 when the open-ended ban on the paper at the Federal Correctional Institution Three Rivers in southern Texas was reversed! Only a few days after Militant attorney David Goldstein filed an…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 13 - April 6, 2026

April 2, 2001 SEATTLE — A West Coast-wide meeting here celebrated the 40th anniversary of the victory of the Cuban people in defending their socialist revolution by routing a U.S.-backed invasion at Playa Girón. The gathering was an opportunity to…


Capitalism’s wars at home, abroad intertwined

Vol. 90/No. 13 - April 6, 2026

Hard-fought labor battles at JBS in Greeley, Colorado, at the BP oil refinery in Whiting, Indiana, and by the United Farm Workers in California focus on matters that are vital for the working class as a whole, as the just-ended…



Synagogues, Jews attacked in Canada as Jew-hatred spreads

Vol. 90/No. 12 - March 30, 2026
Swastikas painted on front of Kosher Pizza Gourmetti in Montreal March 4. That week, three synagogues in Toronto were hit with gunfire, Montreal businesses smeared with Nazi graffiti.

MONTREAL — Three synagogues in the Toronto area and several Jewish-owned businesses in Montreal have been attacked by Jew-haters since the beginning of Washington’s military assault on Iran. Multiple rounds of gunfire in the middle of the night were fired…


Refuse workers in the UK mark one year out on strike

Vol. 90/No. 12 - March 30, 2026

BIRMINGHAM, England — “Stand up, fight back!” striking bin workers chanted outside the Atlas refuse depot here to mark one year on the picket line. Members of Unite the Union walked out March 11, 2025, after Birmingham City Council cut…


Steelworkers strike ArcelorMittal plant in Ohio

Vol. 90/No. 12 - March 30, 2026

SHELBY, Ohio — Some 450 United Steelworkers members at the ArcelorMittal Tubular Products plant here have been on strike since Jan. 13 fighting demands by the company to limit health care for workers’ spouses and change their work schedule in…


Protests in Montreal, Seattle hit US oil blockade of Cuba

Vol. 90/No. 12 - March 30, 2026

MONTREAL — “As a labor union, we must support the Cuban people,” said Chantal Ide, general secretary of the Montreal Metropolitan Council of the National Trade Unions Confederation (CSN), at a conference to support Cuba at the union’s offices here…



Moscow bombs Ukraine miners, uses its troops as cannon fodder

Vol. 90/No. 12 - March 30, 2026
Toll on workers, oppressed nationalities in uniform in Russian army since all-out invasion by Moscow began Feb. 24, 2022. Casualties now regularly outstrip recruitment efforts.

Ukrainian working people are determined to continue fighting to defend their country’s sovereignty, despite Moscow’s airstrikes causing blackouts in cities across Ukraine during the depths of winter. Four years after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his war of conquest, Moscow…