Dozens of veterans and their families rallied outside the Martyrs and Veterans Foundation in Tehran July 8, above, chanting, “Yesterday’s soldiers, today’s hungry.” They were protesting government plans to slash their pensions and other benefits amid the deepening capitalist economic…
ATLANTA — “We need to recognize the common interests of those whose freedom of speech is under attack,” Dr. Aisha Fields, a leader of the African People’s Socialist Party from Huntsville, Alabama, told participants at a July 16 Militant Labor…
PHILADELPHIA — Teamsters at UPS held two “practice pickets” here July 13, part of similar actions across the country in preparation for a potential strike at the end of the month. The package delivery outfit is the largest unionized private…
LONDON — In a bipartisan assault on political rights, a parliamentary committee moved to suspend former Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson from Parliament before he resigned June 9. The move threatens freedoms that are needed and used by working people.…
The spread of terrorist attacks against Jews in Israel and the West Bank by supporters of Hamas and Islamic Jihad — backed by the bourgeois-clerical regime in Iran — along with thuggish actions by rightists among Israeli settlers against Palestinians…
MONTREAL — Some 7,400 longshore workers on Canada’s West Coast docks, members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada, were set to go back on strike July 19, after the union’s leadership rejected a tentative deal that had ended…
The ever-expanding number of “investigations” and charges being filed against Donald Trump is unparalleled. This highly partisan operation against the likely nominee of one of the bosses’ two main parties is being carried out by President Joseph Biden, Trump’s likely…
July 28, 1998 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Chants of “Huelga! Huelga!” (Strike! Strike!) thundered at dawn as close to 1,000 unionists blocked the highway entrance to the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport here July 7. It was the first…
BEAVER, Pa. — “We’ve been talking about how important it is to get the unions involved in our fight,” Hilary Flint, vice president of the Unity Council for the East Palestine Train Derailment, told delegates at the July 17 meeting…
The Ukrainian counteroffensive aimed at turning back Moscow’s invasion is “a bit disappointing,” complained retired U.S. Marine Col. Mark Cancian on NPR June 24. His remarks were typical of recent comments by the military brass and officials of President Joseph…
