ARLINGTON, Va. — Dozens of flight attendants, members of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA union at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport here, mounted a spirited picket line outside of the American Airlines terminal Aug. 18. “Some days you have to…
DECATUR, Ga. — Nurses and their supporters rallied outside the Department of Veteran Affairs hospital here Aug. 12 protesting the termination of their union contract and proposed cuts in staffing. “On Aug. 6, the government canceled our union contract,” Florence…
CLAIRTON, Pa. — “It was a gas leak alright,” Larry Evans told the Militant in Elizabeth, near the giant U.S. Steel Coke Works here, where a deadly explosion killed two union steelworkers and injured 10 others Aug. 11. “They preach…
In an effort to impose a settlement leading to the end of Moscow’s war in Ukraine, President Donald Trump announced that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin would meet in Alaska Aug. 15. While they talk, working people in Ukraine…
VALLEY VIEW, Ohio — Seven weeks into their strike against Airgas, Teamsters members here who fill and haul gas tanks are determined to win contracts with wage increases and improved health care. The Teamsters are on strike in Ohio, New…
It’s in the interests of all workers and the oppressed in the U.S. and worldwide to see the fight to dismantle Hamas carried through to the end. Another Holocaust was the stated aim of Hamas when it carried out its…
More support for the SWP I am writing from Memphis, Tennessee, with a fun anecdote. I was talking with a new friend and learned he and his family are from Grenada. His father has some memorabilia from the revolution, including…
When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, he inherited from his predecessor, Democrat Joseph Biden, the largest immigration prison network in U.S. history. Trump immediately began taking steps to further expand it, claiming there were tens of…
August 21, 2000 PRETORIA, South Africa — “Let us not equivocate: a tragedy of unprecedented proportions is unfolding in Africa,” Nelson Mandela told delegates at the 13th international AIDS conference in Durban, South Africa. “Decades have been chopped from life…
Despite the hype by government officials that the U.S. economy is “booming,” pointing to the billions Washington is reaping from tariffs it’s imposing worldwide, facts show that’s not what working people see and face amid today’s mounting capitalist crisis. It’s…
