March 29, 1999 The massive train crash in Illinois that killed 13 people was a disaster that could have been prevented. The main cause of the accident is known: throughout the United States, highway and rail traffic are forced to…
Thousands of farmers in India are marching toward New Delhi protesting government attacks on their livelihoods. They’re encamped at multiple points along the way, with armed forces deployed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to block them from reaching the…
The international spring campaign to increase the readership of the Militant, get out books by leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and other revolutionaries, and to raise funds for the paper is underway! Join in! Get the paper to your…
The battle to prevent another pogrom by Tehran-backed Hamas continues. During the Oct. 7 pogrom in Israel 1,200 were killed, more than 5,000 wounded and over 250 hostages forced into Gaza. It was the worst massacre of Jews since the…
The mounting pressure by the Joseph Biden administration and other imperialist powers to impose a long-term cease-fire on Israel, putting on ice its battle to destroy the military capacity of Hamas, ignores the avowed intentions of this reactionary group —…
HAVANA — The Havana International Book Fair is not just an event to display and promote literature and the arts. It’s also a place where you meet ordinary Cuban working people defending the conquests of their socialist revolution. A good…
To mark International Women’s Day, the Militant is running this excerpt from a speech by Thomas Sankara, leader of the popular democratic revolution in Burkina Faso, to a rally of several thousand women on March 8, 1987. It is from…
SAN FRANCISCO — Braving intermittent downpours, thousands turned out March 3 for the “Unity Against Antisemitism” march and rally in San Francisco. It was a strong, confident answer to the surge of Jew-hating actions in California in recent weeks. The…
UNION CITY, N.J. — “Look at the pictures of tens of thousands of people chanting slogans at the funeral for Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny,” John Studer, editor of the Militant, told a Militant Labor Forum here March 2. That’s…
NEW YORK — Officials here are getting set to implement so-called congestion pricing fees on drivers entering the streets of Midtown and Lower Manhattan, a stiff regressive tax that falls most heavily on working people. Projected as a move to…
