Join ‘Militant’ campaign for unions, rights

Vol. 87/No. 28 - July 31, 2023

The Militant  tells the truth about all the key working-class questions today — from the strike battles taking place to the fight to defend crucially needed constitutional freedoms. We urge our readers to join with us to get the broadest…


Maine authorities bar aid to Catholic schools yet again

Vol. 87/No. 28 - July 31, 2023

On June 13 Keith and Valori Radonis, parents in rural Maine, filed a lawsuit against the state, challenging discriminatory school funding policies. This was the sixth lawsuit filed since 1994 against state officials seeking to uphold freedom of religion protected…


Derailment threatened toxic release in Philadelphia suburb

Vol. 87/No. 28 - July 31, 2023

WHITEMARSH, Pa. — Shortly before 5 a.m. on July 17, more than 15 cars on a 40-car CSX freight train, including at least one marked as hazardous, derailed here, 16 miles north of Philadelphia. This led to the immediate evacuation…


Supreme Court ruling for web designer is win for free speech

Vol. 87/No. 28 - July 31, 2023
Colorado web designer Lorie Smith won her Supreme Court case June 30 on her right, under First Amendment protections of free speech from government interference, not to endorse messages she disagrees with. This victory defends constitutional liberties for working people.

The U.S. Supreme Court in a 6-3 vote June 30 ruled that a Colorado commercial website designer has the right under the First Amendment — which protects free speech from government interference — to refuse to endorse messages she disagrees…


Veterans, retirees step up protests in Iran

Vol. 87/No. 28 - July 31, 2023

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 forum: ‘Defend freedom of speech for everyone’

Vol. 87/No. 28 - July 31, 2023

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…


Teamster ‘practice pickets’ prepare for national strike

UPS breaks off talks as July 31 deadline looms
Vol. 87/No. 28 - July 31, 2023
UPS workers at “practice strike picket” outside depot in Fremont, California, July 18. Thousands of Teamster members have joined similar actions outside UPS facilities around the country.

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…


Bipartisan attack on Boris Johnson imperils rights in UK

Vol. 87/No. 28 - July 31, 2023

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.…


What is road forward in the Middle East?

Vol. 87/No. 28 - July 31, 2023

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…