Working people face continuing crisis of high prices, debts

Vol. 88/No. 31 - August 19, 2024

“This is the most money we’ve ever made and this is the brokest we’ve ever felt,” said Nicole Lewis, a mother of three who lives near Flint, Michigan, the Wall Street Journal reported July 30. Working as a medical assistant,…


Join fight against ban on ‘Militant’ in Florida prison

Vol. 88/No. 31 - August 19, 2024

More letters are needed to urge the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee to reverse the ban of Militant issue no. 17 imposed by prison authorities at Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone. It’s been over three months since this…


Join fight against Florida prison ban on the ‘Militant’!

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024

It has been three months since prison authorities at Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone, Florida, banned Militant issue no. 17. The Militant promptly appealed the ban and since then dozens of letters have been sent to the Florida Department of…


Join fight against Florida prison ban on the ‘Militant’!

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024

As we go to press, the Militant is still waiting information from the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee on the outcome of its July 18 hearing. On the agenda was the paper’s appeal of the banning of Militant…


Drug prices soar as inflation ravages the working class

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024
Despite having insurance, Jeni Rae Peters in Rapid City, South Dakota, faces over $30,000 of debt in 2020, and threats from bill collectors, after paying for drugs to treat cancer. Some 25% of cancer patients in the U.S. are forced to declare bankruptcy or lose their homes.

While Democrats and the liberal media are heralding a government report saying the average monthly inflation rate is falling, prices on a broad range of essential goods working people need remain stubbornly high, and they’re not coming down. This reality…


1934 Minneapolis Teamsters strikes: Lessons for workers today

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024
Teamsters Local 574 leader announces May 1934 Minneapolis truck drivers strike has ended in victory. After bosses reneged on the contract, workers struck again in mid-July and won.

July marks the 90th anniversary of the 1934 Teamsters strikes in Minneapolis that won union recognition for General Drivers Local 574 and paved the way for successful union battles throughout that city and region. The lessons of this fight, led…


Hearing on Florida prison ban on ‘Militant’ is set for July 18

Vol. 88/No. 28 - July 29, 2024

The Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee informed Militant attorney David Goldstein it has scheduled an “initial review” July 18 on the paper’s appeal of the banning of Militant issue no. 17 by the Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone,…


‘Exodus’: Hard-fought journey of heroic Holocaust survivors

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024
Jewish refugees hemmed in by British troops on Exodus in Haifa, Palestine, July 18, 1947, after they rammed, boarded the boat. British took them to displaced persons camps in Germany.

This month marks the 77th anniversary since thousands of survivors of the Holocaust boarded a ship in France, soon renamed Exodus 1947, in an attempt to rebuild their lives in Palestine. From the get-go the ship was trailed, then brutally…


Join our fight against the ban on the ‘Militant’ in Florida prison

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024

“I learned that Florida prison officials have banned an issue of the Militant newspaper in violation of inmates’ constitutional rights and the right of the Militant to reach its subscribers,” Yecenia Arango, assistant branch manager of the St. Louis County…


Farm Bureau says cost of your 4th of July BBQ hits record high

Vol. 88/No. 26 - July 15, 2024

The American Farm Bureau issued a report leading into the July 4 holiday showing how persistent inflation has boosted the cost of this year’s holiday barbecue to a record high. The average cost for feeding a group of 10 will…