January 31, 2000 COLUMBIA, S.C. — Tens of thousands marched through the streets here demanding the Confederate battle flag no longer be flown over the capitol building. The marchers wound through the streets chanting, “We’re fired up! Take it Down!”…
Over a harrowing three days, Jan. 13-15, 246 starving miners and the bodies of 78 dead miners were brought to the surface from the 4,200-foot-deep abandoned Buffelsfontein gold mine near Stilfontein, South Africa, a small town 100 miles southwest of…
The ceasefire agreement in Gaza today is the product of the blows the Israeli military and people have dealt Hamas, Hezbollah and the reactionary bourgeois regime in Tehran over the last 15 months. Advances in defending Israel as a refuge…
“The Socialist Workers Party campaign speaks in the interests of working people, as we face unemployment, high prices, a deep social crisis and the threat of more wars,” Eric Simpson, the party’s candidate for mayor of Oakland, California, told supporters…
As the crisis of the U.S. rulers’ capitalist system deepens, they are stepping up efforts to place the burden on the backs of working people. One punishing expression of this is the growing shortage of housing working-class families, the young…
The Militant is appealing the banning of its Nov. 11, 2024, issue of the paper by authorities at the Lower Buckeye Jail in Phoenix. The paper is urging supporters of civil liberties and prisoners’ rights to join this fight and…
The overthrow of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, hastened by Israel’s blows to Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, has dealt blows to the reactionary bourgeois regime in Iran and its allies throughout the region. Israel and Hamas are reported…
On Jan. 14, President Joseph Biden filed a “Certificate of Rescission of Cuba’s Designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism.” It stated, “The Government of Cuba has not provided any support for international terrorism during the preceding 6-month period” and…
Prison authorities at the Lower Buckeye Jail in Phoenix — the largest detention facility in Arizona — banned the Nov. 11, 2024, issue of the Militant. The Militant is appealing the ruling, asking supporters of civil liberties and prisoners’ political…
China’s state capitalist rulers are suffering through a yearslong slowdown in economic growth, at the same time that they confront mounting competition with rival capitalist powers, above all, Washington. As economic conditions worsen, millions of working people in China are…
