BNSF rail bosses lay off workers in search of profits, undercut safety

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024

LINCOLN, Neb. — The bosses at the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway announced Feb. 28 they were furloughing over 360 mechanical and rail-car inspectors, members of the International Association of Machinists and the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen. These workers inspect,…




UAW organizing drive in Alabama at Mercedes-Benz makes progress

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024
After gains by the United Auto Workers in strike last fall against the “Big Three” automakers, support for a union at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Alabama, above, “snowballed,” autoworker Kirk Gardner, left in inset, told the Militant. Jim Spitzley, right, is president of UAW Local 112 leading organizing drive at the plant.

COTTONDALE, Ala. — “Our organizing drive got new impetus from the gains the United Auto Workers made during the strike at John Deere in 2021 and what the UAW accomplished last fall with strikes at the Big Three automakers,” Kirk…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024

March 29, 1999 The massive train crash in Illinois that killed 13 people was a disaster that could have been prevented. The main cause of the accident is known: throughout the United States, highway and rail traffic are forced to…


Thousands of farmers in India march on New Delhi

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024

Thousands of farmers in India are marching toward New Delhi protesting government attacks on their livelihoods. They’re encamped at multiple points along the way, with armed forces deployed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to block them from reaching the…


Join campaign to expand the Militant’s readership

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024

The international spring campaign to increase the readership of the Militant, get out books by leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and other revolutionaries, and to raise funds for the paper is underway! Join in! Get the paper to your…



Hamas’ goal is ‘Final Solution,’ carried out to the end

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024

The mounting pressure by the Joseph Biden administration and other imperialist powers to impose a long-term cease-fire on Israel, putting on ice its battle to destroy the military capacity of Hamas, ignores the avowed intentions of this reactionary group —…


Cuba’s Association of the Blind prepares for national assembly

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024
María Victoria Viltres, physical therapist who has retinis pigmentosa, working in rehab center in Buey Arriba municipality on the edge of the Sierra Maestra mountains, October 2016.

HAVANA — The Havana International Book Fair is not just an event to display and promote literature and the arts. It’s also a place where you meet ordinary Cuban working people defending the conquests of their socialist revolution. A good…