The U.S. government has scheduled the first execution of a woman in nearly 70 years, setting a Dec. 8 date to put Lisa Montgomery to death. This will be the eighth federal execution since mid-July after a 17-year break in…
Weeks of fighting in the southern Caucasus between the regimes in Azerbaijan and Armenia over control of the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh has taken a big toll on working people throughout the area. With the Turkish government backing Azerbaijan and Moscow…
A new surge of COVID-19, with increased hospitalizations and deaths, is once again hitting many cities, towns and rural areas in the U.S. and elsewhere worldwide. The U.S. capitalist rulers and their for-profit health care industry are no more prepared…
Whichever capitalist political party wins the presidency Nov. 3 — the Democrats with Joseph Biden or Republicans with Donald Trump — tens of millions of workers are going to face the same deep economic, and moral crisis the day after…
In an important victory for political rights, Florida prison officials Sept. 24 overturned their suppression of Militant issues nos. 33 and 34, and then two weeks later reversed their ban on no. 38. Each of these issues had been suppressed…
Millions of workers in the U.S. have lost their jobs in the midst of a two-sided and intertwined capitalist economic and social crisis unfolding today. One side is the efforts of the bosses and their government to make working people…
“You’re in good hands at Allstate,” the familiar TV commercial says. But the bosses of this large insurance company announced this week they are eliminating 3,800 workers. Allstate is one of a number of big capitalist outfits slashing its workforce…
The U.S. government executed Christopher Vialva Sept. 24, the seventh federal inmate to be put to death since mid-July. These are the first federal executions to occur after a 17-year hiatus, and the most in a single year since before…
Florida prison officials are at it again. On Oct. 3 the Militant received notice from Florida State Prison in Raiford that they had impounded issue no. 38. The reason? Because of the article on pages 1 and 2 titled “Join…
Supporters of both the rights of prisoners and freedom of the press are stepping up their efforts to urge Florida prison officials to reverse the banning of four recent issues of the Militant. The state’s Department of Corrections Literature Review…
