In a deliberate violation of Poland’s airspace, Moscow deployed 19 drones across that country’s border Sept. 9, during a broader assault on working people in Ukraine. Warplanes from the Netherlands and Poland, both members of the Washington-led NATO military alliance,…
ATLANTA — Nearly 100 workers who operate and maintain the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport’s Plane Train voted 56-24 to go union. The International Association of Machinists Rail Division and Transportation Communications Union/IAM announced the election results Aug. 20. The Plane…
In their drive to further boost already booming profits, health insurance bosses are jacking up monthly premiums by the most in 15 years, tightening the squeeze on working-class families as we confront a deepening capitalist economic crisis marked by high…
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The British Columbia General Employees’ Union, which represents 34,000 government employees across the province, launched strike action Sept. 2, after the union’s members voted 92.7% to go out. Their contract expired March 31. The central issue…
Days before callously killing 11 people on a speedboat in international waters off the coast of Venezuela Sept. 2, Washington carried out a rapid military buildup in the Caribbean that so far has amassed eight warships, several Navy P-8 surveillance…
PITTSBURGH — Over the last decade, black lung disease has been on the rise among U.S. coal miners, particularly in Appalachia. On Aug. 24, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette described years of inaction by the Mine Safety and Health Administration in testing…
HOUSTON — Members of UNITE HERE Local 23 began a historic strike at the Hilton Americas-Houston in downtown on Labor Day. “This is the first hotel strike in Texas,” striker Maria Vasquez told the Militant. She has worked at the…
The Socialist Workers Party is preparing for a fall campaign to expand the readership of the Militant and books by party leaders and other revolutionaries, as well as raise $140,000 for the party’s work. The dates for the eight-week drive…
The U.S. Communist Party, true to its Stalinist tradition, is attempting to rewrite history to cover up its role in championing the murderous atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the U.S. imperialist rulers 80 years ago. Marking this anniversary…
Sept. 9 rally at Arak Aluminum Company in Iran’s Markazi province, on 42nd day of hunger strikes and other protests by 4,000 workers. They are demanding higher wages, job safety and end to harassment by bosses, who are trying to…
