Working people face continuing crisis of high prices, debts

Vol. 88/No. 31 - August 19, 2024

“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,…


Over 20,000 Boeing workers vote to authorize a strike in contract fight

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024

SEATTLE — More than 20,000 Boeing workers, members of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 751, met here at the Mariners Major League Baseball stadium July 17 and voted by over 99% to strike if they don’t have…


Join fight against Florida prison ban on the ‘Militant’!

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024

It has been three months since prison authorities at Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone, Florida, banned Militant issue no. 17. The Militant promptly appealed the ban and since then dozens of letters have been sent to the Florida Department of…


Freedom Convoy trials are attack on rights in Canada

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024

MONTREAL — Despite a strong ruling by Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley earlier this year saying Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government invoking the draconian Emergencies Act to crush a truckers’ protest in 2022 was unconstitutional and illegal, the trials of…


Canada rail workers fight for safety, demand right to strike

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024

MONTREAL — Rail workers across Canada are awaiting the decision of the Canada Industrial Relations Board on their right to strike. The 9,300 conductors, engineers, yard workers and dispatchers at both the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Kansas City railroads,…


Cuba celebrates July 26 in Sancti Spiritus

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024
Cuba celebrates July 26 in Sancti Spiritus

Thousands of Cubans gathered in Sancti Spiritus July 26 to celebrate the 71st anniversary of the rebel assault led by Fidel Castro on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes garrisons in 1953. It was the beginning of constructing a…


Child care crisis facing working people worsens

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024

The crisis of child care for the working class has worsened since the government’s $24 billion pandemic relief program ended last September. Pressures are increasing, especially on women, to quit work in order to look after children, while the rise…


Australia: Nurses in New South Wales rally for more pay, staffing

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024

SYDNEY — Nurses and midwives rallied outside public hospitals across New South Wales July 23-24. Members of the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association are demanding an immediate 15% pay raise. “We are calling for fairness,” Fran Cavallaro, who works at…


Ukraine writer, shot by Putin’s troops, lives on in secret diary

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024
Author Victoria Amelina near tree where she dug up diary about Russian occupation by Volodymyr Vakulenko, a Ukrainian children’s book writer. He had buried it before being murdered. Amelina published it in 2023 before she was herself killed by a Russian airstrike.

The story of a Ukrainian author, Volodymyr Vakulenko, executed by invading Russian forces in March 2022 — and the discovery and publication of his hidden journal by his father and a fellow writer — sheds light on the depth of…


Growing opposition to death penalty in Iran

Vol. 88/ No. 30 - August 12, 2024
Growing opposition to death penalty in Iran

Growing numbers in Iran — including prisoners, retirees and unionists — are demanding an end to the death penalty. “Execution is a medieval and irreversible sentence that can never improve the conditions of society,” Reza Sadeghi wrote July 25 on…