Rail workers rally, demand paid sick leave

Vol. 87/No. 47 - December 18, 2023
Rail workers rally outside Indiana Harbor Belt railroad office in Hammond, Indiana, Nov. 15 to demand bosses agree to provide paid sick leave.

Dozens of track workers, members of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes union, held two protests Nov. 15 — one outside the headquarters of the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad in Hammond, Indiana, and the other at the U.S. offices…


Rail workers rally, demand paid sick leave

Dozens of track workers, members of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes union, held two protests Nov. 15 — one outside the headquarters of the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad in Hammond, Indiana, and the other at the U.S. offices…


Labor Day actions highlight union struggles worldwide

Thousands join Labor Day rallies, back union battles
Vol. 87/No. 35 - September 25, 2023
Above, strikers from Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists march in New York City Labor Day Parade Sept. 9. Inset, UAW contingent at the Nashville, Tennessee, Labor Day march.

NEW YORK — Thousands joined the Labor Day Parade up Fifth Avenue here Sept. 9 in one of the liveliest actions by the union movement in years. The mood of union power was highlighted by the boisterous 1,000-strong contingent of…


Evidence shows capitalist greed, gov’t policies led to Maui disaster

Vol. 87/No. 33 - September 4, 2023
Burned-out homes in Lahaina on Maui, Hawaii, surround old Pioneer Mill smokestack. Wildfire started Aug. 8, fueled by overgrown invasive grasses on abandoned sugar plantation land.

Two weeks after a fast-moving wildfire wiped out the city of Lahaina on Maui, evidence mounts that the culprit is decades of capitalist exploitation and oppression exacerbated by recent government decisions to prioritize spending money on fighting “climate change” over…


Maui wildfire disaster caused by capitalism, gov’t disdain

Vol. 87/No. 32 - August 28, 2023

A rapidly moving wildfire rampaged across Lahaina, a historic town on Maui in Hawaii Aug. 8, laying waste to over 2,000 buildings, mainly residences, and causing the death of over 100 people to date, all but two unidentified, with more…


Thousands protest after cops kill teen in France

Vol. 87/No. 26 - July 17, 2023

Protests and rioting have gripped the Paris suburb of Nanterre, home to tens of thousands of Arabs, Africans and other Muslims, since cops killed Nahel Merzouk, a teenager from the area, June 27. Merzouk came from an Algerian and Moroccan…


Toxic chemical fires poison East Texas

Vol. 87/No. 23 - June 12, 2023

Since the beginning of May there have been three fires at refineries and chemical plants near Houston, with one worker dead and over a dozen injured. Like the disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, these dangers are a product of the…


Passenger train crash in Holland kills one, injures 30

Vol. 87/No. 15 - April 17, 2023
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At least one person — a construction worker laboring on the tracks — was killed in a nasty derailment, above, in the village of Voorschoten in the Netherlands at 3:25 a.m. April 4. The double-decker intercity train carrying over 50…


Militant Fighting Fund key to financing the paper

Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023

The Militant is 100% financed by its readers — workers, farmers and youth who think the paper’s coverage is crucial to help our class find a road forward against the attacks of the bosses, their government and their state. We…