Support is building for the Militant’s fight against efforts by officials at Florida’s Jackson Correctional Institution to ban the paper, a violation of inmates’ constitutional rights and the right of the Militant to reach its subscribers behind bars. The Militant…
The working class continues to feel the squeeze from high prices and challenges getting decent, well-paid full-time jobs to cover their families’ increased living expenses. This reflects the growing capitalist economic and social crisis affecting our lives every day. But…
Hospitals, especially in rural areas, are increasingly filing suit against patients for unpaid medical bills that run into the tens of billions of dollars. Some 15 million people in the U.S. owe money to area hospitals, an example of the…
Starbucks has been cutting its workforce while opening hundreds of new stores in a drive to boost its profits. This means remaining workers are overworked and unable to keep up with the daily barrage of orders. Customers find themselves stuck…
Claiming its Beth Israel Hospital in New York City is not profitable, Mount Sinai Health System bosses are moving to shut it down piece by piece, impacting hundreds of thousands who live and work in the Lower Manhattan area. They…
Young workers are being ravaged by the continuing scourge of inflation marking today’s capitalist economic and social crisis. The average credit card debt for 22- to 24-year-olds has ballooned to a record high of $2,834 per youth at the end…
The birthrate in the U.S. declined to an average of 1.62 births per woman in 2023, the lowest rate recorded since the government began tracking it in the 1930s. The root causes are the squeeze on workers’ living standards and…
So-called Gaza Solidarity Encampments, first set up April 17 at the Ivy League Columbia University in New York by supporters there of the reactionary Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom against Jews, have spread to a number of other elite campuses in…
Increasing numbers of working people are finding themselves unable to cover the exorbitant costs of health care for their family. This is because under capitalism medical care is treated like every other industry, a way to generate profit, not to…
Flight attendants and their supporters rallied at 16 airports across the U.S., as well as in the United Kingdom and Guam, in spirited protests against United Airlines and other airline bosses April 11 called by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA.…
