“We can win working people to get behind the fight for a society where all workers in the U.S. are welcome and join together to defend our class interests against capitalist exploitation,” Eric Simpson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor…
For the 60th commemoration of the assassination of Malcolm X, Feb. 21, 1965, the Militant is featuring a selection from Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party.…
Despite the unstable ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon the key questions — Israel’s dismantling of Hamas so it cannot carry out more bloody pogroms against Jews, as well as Israel preventing Tehran from getting nuclear weapons — remain unresolved. This…
February 24 marks the opening of the fourth year of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale war against the people of Ukraine. Ten days before, a drone strike, which Kyiv blamed on Moscow, hit the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant in…
Issue no. 2 of the Militant, dated Jan. 20, 2025, has been banned at Santa Rosa Correctional Institution in Milton, Florida. A letter sent to the paper from a subscriber there said it “was impounded for no reason.” He attached…
FORT WORTH, Texas — Some 45 members of Teamsters Local 745 set up strike picket lines at the Hertz car rental facility at the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport Jan. 18 after the company refused to offer a new contract…
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — On Feb. 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern train derailed here, dumping 38 cars on the ground, including 11 full of toxic chemicals. A massive fire lit up this small town. Over the objections of the company…
SPALDING, England — Hundreds of Unite union members at the Bakkavor food factory here have been on strike for nearly five months fighting for better pay. Since Feb. 11 they have reinforced their picket lines, determined to defend their union.…
Since his inauguration Jan. 20, President Donald Trump has moved to implement his pledge to save money, eliminate waste and shift the political priorities of the vast federal bureaucracy. This encompasses the Treasury Department, “foreign aid,” “diversity” programs across all…
SYDNEY — Electricians working for Sydney Trains walked off the job for eight hours here Feb. 12, part of an ongoing fight for a new contract. Some 200 members of the Electrical Trades Union from different depots joined a rally…
