US rulers push to reestablish stability in two party setup

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024
Presidential candidate Donald Trump with running mate J.D. Vance at Republican National Convention July 15. Trump demagogically pitches Republican campaign to “forgotten” working people.

For the first time in years, the capitalist rulers in the U.S. are making progress in reestablishing a measure of stability in the decades-old two-party political system. This doesn’t mean they have any answers to the economic and social crisis…


Drug prices soar as inflation ravages the working class

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024
Despite having insurance, Jeni Rae Peters in Rapid City, South Dakota, faces over $30,000 of debt in 2020, and threats from bill collectors, after paying for drugs to treat cancer. Some 25% of cancer patients in the U.S. are forced to declare bankruptcy or lose their homes.

While Democrats and the liberal media are heralding a government report saying the average monthly inflation rate is falling, prices on a broad range of essential goods working people need remain stubbornly high, and they’re not coming down. This reality…


July 26: Building the leadership to make Cuba’s socialist revolution

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024
Leaders of July 26, 1953, attack on Cuban dictator’s Moncada military garrison, including, from left, Raúl Castro, Juan Almeida and Fidel Castro, leave Isle of Pines prison, May 15, 1955.

Seventy-one years ago on July 26, workers and youth, led by Fidel Castro, attacked the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba and the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Garrison in Bayamo, opening the battle for Cuba’s socialist revolution. Without fear of…



Tehran’s allies expand drone, missile attacks on Jews, Israel

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024

In retaliation for a drone attack targeting civilians that killed one person in a Tel Aviv apartment building and wounded nine others July 19, the Israeli air force struck fuel tanks and a power plant in the Houthi-controlled port city…


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

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024

As we go to press, the Militant is still waiting information from the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee on the outcome of its July 18 hearing. On the agenda was the paper’s appeal of the banning of Militant…


1934 Minneapolis Teamsters strikes: Lessons for workers today

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024
Teamsters Local 574 leader announces May 1934 Minneapolis truck drivers strike has ended in victory. After bosses reneged on the contract, workers struck again in mid-July and won.

July marks the 90th anniversary of the 1934 Teamsters strikes in Minneapolis that won union recognition for General Drivers Local 574 and paved the way for successful union battles throughout that city and region. The lessons of this fight, led…


Putin regime in Moscow targets Russian culture today

Vol. 88/No. 29 - August 5, 2024

After brutally suppressing political protests against his war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin is now intensifying his crackdown on culture and artistic creativity. “Censorship and repression is now at levels resembling those in the post-Stalin years of the later…



Shots at Trump are product of liberal frenzy, capitalist crisis

Vol. 88/No. 28 - July 29, 2024
Armed Secret Service agents guard former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, during FBI raid, Aug. 8, 2022. Inset, throwing flash bang grenades, FBI agents attacked Uhuru Center, African People’s Socialist Party, in St. Louis 10 days earlier.

Thomas Matthew Crooks came within a hair’s breadth of assassinating Donald Trump when he opened fire with a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle at the Republican presidential candidate, who was speaking at a campaign rally of thousands in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13.…