“We need a change. What we are going through is not sustainable,” trucker Kenneth Kirkland told Chris Hoeppner, a railroad worker and Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress from Pennsylvania, at a truck stop in Bentleyville, south of Pittsburgh,…
Skyrocketing prices continue to batter the lives of millions of workers and our families. In hopes of slowing inflation, the Federal Reserve — the U.S. government’s national bank — has begun a series of sharp increases in interest rates, a…
Fed up with strict COVID-19 lockdown restrictions imposed in Shanghai by the Chinese rulers over the past two months, workers at Quanta, a Taiwanese-owned plant that makes MacBook laptops, have organized protests against the conditions they face. This has included…
Over 100 people rallied at the Miami International Airport, above, May 29, after participating in a 42-car caravan through the city demanding an end to the U.S. economic war against Cuba and for lifting Washington’s restrictions on travel to the…
The assassination in Tehran May 22 of Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, an operative of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Quds Force, widely believed to have been carried out by Israel’s spy and counterterrorism agency Mossad, has ratcheted up tensions in the Middle…
![Protests across Iran erupted in mid-May over government lifting of subsidies on basic foods, effects of rulers’ war moves in the region. Angry demonstrators raised political demands: “Down with [Supreme Leader Aya-tollah Ali] Khamenei!” and “We don’t want mullahs ruling!”](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IranProtest_8622-300x210.jpg)
Demonstrations against government moves to lift subsidies on basic foods, which touched off a torrent of rising prices, erupted across Iran in mid-May. They spread to dozens of cities and towns. Protesters in many of the actions raised political slogans,…
Members of the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the U.K. have taken over the top the international Militant drive to win new readers and raise $165,000 to keep getting the paper out.…
The stakes for working people in defeating Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine are at the center of discussions Socialist Workers Party members and supporters are having as they head into the final days of the international drive to win new readers…
Another woman died on the job in North Carolina May 3 after getting stuck inside an industrial bread machine for an hour, the second such death in the state in three weeks. Virginia López Severiano, 44, was cleaning an industrial…
The April 30-May 8 target week to boost the drive to expand the readership of the Militant, get out books by revolutionary working-class leaders and win contributions to the Militant Fighting Fund has gotten off to a good start. Socialist…
