“I agree, a labor party is needed to draw together everyone, unionized or not, as well as others like farmers and mom-and-pop business owners,” Jesse Dansby, right, a board operator and striker at the Marathon oil refinery in Detroit, told…
In a contradictory verdict, a jury in Tampa, Florida, decided Sept. 12 that Omali Yeshitela, the leader of the African People’s Socialist Party, and Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel, both members of the support group UHURU, were not guilty of…
“The economic war” waged by the U.S. government “is the main cause of the hardships facing the Cuban people, and the country’s economy,” Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said in a special media presentation in Havana Sept. 12. Rodríguez detailed…
October 4, 1999 VERNON, British Columbia — “The most significant thing that has been accomplished has been everything regarding affection and solidarity between us,” stated Alcides López, representative of the Cuban Ministry of Agriculture. López was part of a delegation…
The following statement was released Sept. 17 by Rachele Fruit, a member of UNITE HERE and Socialist Workers Party candidate for president. The war between labor and capital is the central issue of the 2024 presidential election campaign. In the…
The Socialist Workers Party has launched an ambitious campaign over the final two months of the 2024 elections to expand the reach of the Militant, the SWP campaign of Rachele Fruit for president and Dennis Richter for vice president, books…
Fruit: ‘Back striking Boeing workers! Build solidarity’ MIAMI — On a steamy morning here Sept. 15 Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate Rachele Fruit met workers at the International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1416 hall to learn more about their fight for…
Under capitalism workers are expendable if they can’t labor to create profits for the ruling rich. Under this dog-eat-dog system, responsibility for caring for children or older relatives increasingly falls on their family. “The Crushing Financial Burden of Aging at…
It’s now been nearly five months since Militant issue no. 17 was impounded by Jackson Correctional Institution prison authorities in Malone, Florida. Every day that goes by without the overturn of the ban is a serious violation of prisoners’ constitutional…
The Iranian government has been arresting opponents, especially in the Kurdish region, hoping to head off demonstrations on the second anniversary of the death of Zhina Amini. The young Kurdish woman died Sept. 16, 2022, after she was arrested in…
