COVENTRY, England — Workers at the giant Amazon warehouse in this Midlands city narrowly failed to win union recognition by just 28 votes, getting 49.5%. “We see the outcome as a stepping stone toward Amazon recognizing the union,” Darren Westwood,…
Minnesota: Thousands hear the SWP campaign program MINNEAPOLIS — “No offense, but how are you guys going to change things?” Steven Lutchen, a truck driver, asked Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, at a Hmong Farmers Market…
Since the Democrats unceremoniously pushed aside incumbent President Joseph Biden as their 2024 candidate and anointed Kamala Harris to replace him, they’ve made significant progress stabilizing their party and presenting a new political image. Donald Trump has united the Republicans,…
“This is the most money we’ve ever made and this is the brokest we’ve ever felt,” said Nicole Lewis, a mother of three who lives near Flint, Michigan, the Wall Street Journal reported July 30. Working as a medical assistant,…
In a highly polarized election in Venezuela July 28, incumbent President Nicolás Maduro was declared the winner by the head of the government’s National Electoral Council. The opposition and its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, refused to accept the ruling, claiming…
The Israeli people are preparing to defend themselves from threatened new assaults from the reactionary capitalist regime in Iran and its allies, including Hezbollah and other groups in the “axis of resistance.” As the Militant goes to press these attacks…
LOS ANGELES — Over the past few months a number of unions have voted to urge the U.S. government to remove Cuba from its State Sponsors of Terrorism list. At its July 16-17 convention, the 2.3 million-member California State AFL-CIO…
LONDON — Fast on the heels of its election victory, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government has taken steps to hone its defense of the interests of the U.K.’s capitalist rulers at home and abroad. Within days, Foreign Secretary David…
More letters are needed to urge the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee to reverse the ban of Militant issue no. 17 imposed by prison authorities at Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone. It’s been over three months since this…
MONTREAL — Chris Carbert and Anthony Olienick, participants in the trucker-organized 2022 Freedom Convoy against Ottawa’s job-threatening COVID vaccine mandates, were acquitted by a jury Aug. 2 of frame-up charges of “conspiring” to kill police. The courthouse in Lethbridge, Alberta,…
