In the largest sustained protests in decades, workers, students, members of Indigenous groups and others have taken to the streets in Panama demanding government action against rising food and fuel prices and joblessness, and opposing the propertied rulers’ indifference to…
Soaring inflation over the past year and a half is battering the lives of millions of working people worldwide. Combined with the impact of the capitalist crisis on jobs, price hikes are making it increasingly difficult for workers to keep…
“I need this paper,” school teacher Juawana Kinnard told Socialist Workers Party member Anthony Dutrow as they sat on her porch in Cincinnati and she signed up to renew her Militant subscription July 8. “All the other news I see…
PHILADELPHIA — The three-week effort to win ballot status for Chris Hoeppner, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress from Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District, got off to a strong start here July 9-10. Through discussions door to door and at…
Thousands of farmers driving their tractors demonstrated June 22 in central Netherlands protesting government plans to compel them to reduce their livestock herds by 30%, forcing the scaling back or closing of a number of farms. Traffic came to a…
Socialist Workers Party members are discussing the roots of the capitalist crises working people face today and what we can do together to defend ourselves. As they present the party’s program widely among workers and farmers they’re getting a good…
Sixty-one years after African anti-imperialist independence fighter Patrice Lumumba was assassinated, a gold-crowned tooth, the only part of his body that exists, was buried in a state funeral in the Democratic Republic of the Congo June 30. The date marked…
“I was born in 1995,” Luke Winnicki told Chris Hoeppner, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress, June 26 in south Philadelphia. “My first memory was Sept. 11, 2001, then there was the 2008 financial crash. My family survived but…
For all their pious talk about the climate crisis and the need to end the use of fossil fuels, most capitalist rulers worldwide, as well as middle-class environmental groups, oppose much-needed steps to expand the use of nuclear power. This…
Opioid overdoses ravaging cities and rural areas alike killed nearly 110,000 people in the U.S. last year. And increasing numbers of state governments are legalizing and seeking to profit off the sale of marijuana. At the Cannabis World Congress and…
