MIAMI — July 18 marked the 32nd anniversary of the 1994 Tehran-backed Hezbollah bombing of the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that killed 85 people and wounded over 300. It was commemorated in Buenos Aires July 17 and…
President Donald Trump cancelled an attack on Iran set for Aug. 3, then immediately threatened to “decapitate” its rulers, hitting Iran harder than any strike “since World War II,” if Tehran does not give in to U.S. demands. At the…
LINCOLN, Neb. — On July 9 Norfolk Southern conductor Scott Shoemaker, a 67-year-old experienced rail worker only weeks from retirement working out of Toledo, Ohio, was struck and killed while inspecting a passing train in East Chicago, Indiana. That 110-car…
The struggles Robert F. Williams led “to desegregate public facilities in the Jim Crow South, and to organize self-defense in the Black community against Ku Klux Klan night riders, made Monroe, North Carolina, in those years an emblem of resistance…
BLUE ASH, Ohio — More than 500 people lined the street here Sunday, Aug. 2, protesting in front of the local Department of Homeland Security facility to demand extension of Temporary Protective Status for Haitian immigrants. Many Haitians in Springfield,…
The U.S. ruling class ordered the dropping of newly developed atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan 81 years ago this month, incinerating over 200,000 men, women and children. Today, as Washington and other imperialist powers…
FORT MORGAN, Colo. — Socialist Workers Party members and supporters and a member of the Communist League in Canada came here to bring solidarity to workers locked out by Cargill bosses and to prepare Militant coverage to tell the story…
WHITING, Ind. — Members of United Steelworkers Local 7-1 locked out by the bosses at BP here got a rousing greeting as they marched in the huge Whiting Pierogi Fest Parade July 24. On the sidelines thousands applauded, and many…
LOS ANGELES — A town hall meeting organized by city officials here July 9 turned into an angry protest against their indifference to the horrific conditions that continue to confront workers who live near the Lineage plant in Boyle Heights…
AUSTIN, Texas — Some 2,700 people attended this year’s National Federation of the Blind convention here July 3-8. Another 600 listened to the proceedings online. Delegations attended from Hawaii and Puerto Rico, as well as across the U.S. For the…
