The Socialist Workers Party 2024 campaigns are being launched across the country and are getting attention. A Jan. 15 press release announcing the party was running Joanne Kuniansky for U.S. Senate from New Jersey and Lea Sherman for U.S. Congress…
Some 1,100 teachers and 800 teaching aides went on strike in Newton, Massachusetts, Jan. 19 following an overwhelming vote for action by members of the Newton Teachers Association. “The most important issue is better pay and schedules for the teaching…
SEATTLE — A well-attended Militant Labor Forum here Jan. 6 featured a panel discussion on how to effectively fight Jew-hatred and defend Israel’s right to exist in the wake of the murderous Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom against Jews in Israel.…
Many older workers in the U.S. confront the harsh reality that working your entire adult life doesn’t guarantee you will have a roof over your head if you retire. Millions of older adults who depend on meager Social Security benefits…
WASHINGTON — “We seek to preserve the economic and social transformation of Cuba today. To protect the rights of the Cuban people in a world more difficult and more dangerous than 1959,” Alejandro García del Toro, deputy chief of Mission…
Hamas is a murderous, reactionary and anti-working-class outfit whose founding covenant calls for wiping Israel off the face of the earth and the slaughter of all the Jews. It has become an increasingly central link in Tehran’s “axis of resistance.”…
Working-class solidarity is crucial to strengthen today’s union struggles and build a more powerful labor movement. Flight attendants are urging fellow workers to join their picket lines at 30 airports worldwide Feb. 13 as part of the fight for new…
February 1, 1999 President William Clinton repeated in his State of the Union address a favorite theme of bourgeois politicians: that Social Security may be bankrupt within a few decades because a bigger section of the population is living longer…
BENSENVILLE, Ill. — More than 130 striking drivers at the US Foods distribution center here are getting support from fellow Teamsters around the country. Teamsters Local 705 is sending striking workers to other US Foods warehouses around the country in…
The number of workers behind bars who subscribe to the Militant grew from 191 in March 2023 to more than 260 today — a 36% increase in less than a year! And there’s no sign the increase is slowing down.…
