The Joseph Biden administration boasts its economic policies — dubbed “Bidenomics” — will lead to the president keeping the White House in 2024. But the real-life experience of tens of millions of workers is increasing their uncertainty about the future,…
LINCOLN, Neb. — After Union Pacific Railroad bosses announced in October they were going to furlough 1,350 track-maintenance workers in the next month, Tony Cardwell, president of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division union that organizes these workers,…
Since Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre of Jews in Israel, members of the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K. have been using the Militant to explain why workers and our unions have a stake…
NEW YORK — Two major recent events around the world are shaping the consciousness of millions of working people in the U.S., Peter Thierjung of the Socialist Workers Party told participants in a Militant Labor Forum here Nov. 18. The…
SYDNEY — Some opponents here of Israel’s right to exist and defend itself portray the conflict since the Hamas slaughter of Jews Oct. 7 as a fight between “indigenous Palestinians” and “colonizing Jews.” They seek to link it with the…
Ukrainian people are unbending in their courageous fight to defend their people and their country’s independence against the genocidal onslaught by invading Russian forces, who have suffered heavy losses. Despite Vladimir Putin’s brutal clampdown at home, popular opposition to the…
The Militant will be presenting a series of special features related to unfolding events in world politics following the slaughter carried out by Tehran-backed Hamas in Israel Oct. 7. The first is the article by Roy Landersen in this issue…
Click on the links below to read news, opinion and background historical coverage of the events in Israel since Hamas launched its pogrom on October 7. Titles in purple are from last week’s Militant. News from the pages of the…
DETROIT — “Housekeeping is on the streets! Dirty beds, dirty sheets!” was the chant by strikers outside Hollywood Casino’s hotel in Detroit’s Greektown Nov. 15 when Militant correspondents from Cincinnati joined in. Some 3,700 workers, members of five unions, struck…
CHICAGO — “Overworked! Underpaid!” chanted hundreds of American Airlines flight attendants, members of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants union, as they rallied outside of Chicago O’Hare Airport Terminal 1 Nov. 16. The boisterous and spirited pickets carried signs saying,…
