Leaks shine light on breadth of US spy operations around the world

Vol. 87/No. 17 - May 1, 2023

The leak of top-secret papers from the CIA and the Joint Chiefs of Staff has shone a spotlight on Washington’s vast spy operations aimed at allies and antagonists alike. This material was apparently ferreted out not by a foreign agent,…



PBS documentary distorts story of fight against Vietnam War

Vol. 87/No. 15 - April 17, 2023

“The Movement and the ‘Madman,’” a new PBS documentary, offers a version of the movement against the Vietnam War in 1969 that blames President Richard Nixon for the war and plays up the role of the Democratic Party that year…


Defend crucial constitutional freedoms from gov’t assault

Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023

While New York City prosecutor Alvin Bragg pushes to indict former President Donald Trump on charges even he admits would be difficult to prove, federal prosecutors announced they plan to charge up to 1,200 more people in connection with the…


155,000 German transport workers strike for wage raise as prices soar

Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023

Demanding wage raises to offset soaring prices, transport workers in Germany March 27 held their largest strike since the 1990s. Some 155,000 members of Verdi (United Services Trade Union) and EVG (Rail and Transport Workers Union) shut down most train,…


Peace protesters get ‘Militant,’ discuss unions, war in Ukraine

Vol. 87/No. 13 - April 3, 2023
Navy veteran Tanesha Stebb subscribes to Militant after discussion with SWP member Willie Cotton at March 18 peace protest in Washington; 11 subscriptions and 18 books were sold

WASHINGTON — Socialist Workers Party members found interest in the party’s program and activities when they campaigned at a March 18 “Fund people’s needs, not the war machine” protest across from the White House.   The action was called by…


US bank failures reflect capitalist crisis as rulers debate budget

Vol. 87/No. 12 - March 27, 2023
After March 10 collapse of Silicon Valley and Signature banks, major U.S. regional bank stocks plunged, with First Republic Bank closing down over 60% on March 13. Despite capitalists’ claims of "big stock rally" March 14, shares of First Republic remained down.

Democrats and Republicans are tied up in partisan squabbling over President Joseph Biden’s $6.8 trillion budget plan. While they disagree on Biden’s proposed social expenditures and new taxes to fund them, both parties agree on the need to allocate billions…


‘Politically correct’ publishing bosses censor Roald Dahl

Vol. 87/No. 11 - March 20, 2023

“Taking care for the imagination and fast-developing minds of young children,” the editors at Puffin, a division of Penguin Random House, pontificated Feb. 24, “is a responsibility.” This was why they had to bowdlerize 17 titles by children’s author Roald…


Special’ grand jury probe in Georgia is attack on political rights

Vol. 87/No. 10 - March 13, 2023

Casting aside any pretense at impartiality, special grand jury foreman Emily Kohrs has been on a “media tour” divulging selective details of the Democratic Party-run search for indictments targeting Donald Trump’s alleged interference in Georgia’s 2020 elections. A gleeful liberal…


‘Workers and working farmers both face common class enemy’

Vol. 87/No. 10 - March 13, 2023
U. S. farm debt in billions of dollars. After rising for decades, average farm debt has reached a record high. A disproportionate amount of this debt falls on the backs of working farmers.

MOUNT OLIVE, N.J. — “My father inherited his family’s debts, then we inherited his,” Hunter Hildebrant, 25, told the Militant at her family’s farm Feb. 18. Together with brothers Roy and Forrest, and twin sister Aspen, she grows tomatoes, onions,…