CHESTERTON, Ind. — One hundred ninety-six motorcycles and their riders lined up outside United Steelworkers Local 6787’s hall here at the start of the Poker Run to benefit locked-out BP refinery workers and their USW Local 7-1 Strike and Defense…
MONTREAL — The 300 members of United Steelworkers Local 6951 went on strike at the West ArcelorMittal plant in Contrecoeur Aug. 1, the day after their old contract expired. Contrecoeur is an hour’s drive northeast of Montreal. When Militant worker-correspondents…
The Battle of Birmingham in the spring of 1963 was the biggest and broadest action yet against decades of segregation enforced by racist violence. Millions across the country saw fearless fighters against Jim Crow — including thousands of youth —…
President Donald Trump’s administration has backed away from threats of new and larger airstrikes on Iran — for the moment — while intensifying its suffocating economic warfare, including a naval blockade of Iranian ports. It’s working people and oppressed nationalities…
(first of two articles) OBERLIN, Ohio — “The Socialist Workers Party exists, born in class struggle. Build it!” That was the banner displayed above the speakers platform at the party’s 2026 International Conference held here June 11-14. The banner is…
MONTREAL — Noam, a kosher restaurant here, was burned to the ground Aug. 1, one of a growing number of attacks on Jews in Canada. Luckily, no one was in the building at the time. Police are treating the act…
PHILADELPHIA — Cape Verdean filmmaker Elson Santos organized a showing of the new documentary he directed, along with Lara Sousa from Mozambique, to 80 people at the BlackStar Film Festival here July 6-9. The film, “We, People of the Islands,”…
The New York Times and other liberal capitalist news media are claiming that Hamas has agreed to “disarm” in exchange for Israeli troops withdrawing from Gaza, part of a 15-point “peace” plan released July 31 by the so-called Board of…
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…
