MONTREAL — Since the deadly Oct. 7 pogrom by Hamas in Israel there has been a rise in Jew-hating violence worldwide. Here in Canada, Hamas supporters have shot bullets at schools; carried out physical attacks, threats and vandalism at synagogues;…
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — In its June 25 final hearing on the February 2023 Norfolk Southern derailment and disaster for residents here, the National Transportation Safety Board said the rail company bears full responsibility. Board Chair Jennifer Homendy called their…
More than 20,000 oil project contract workers are on strike at over 100 worksites in Iran, demanding higher wages and better working conditions. The strike began June 20, a week before the country’s presidential election. In a sign of the…
Two dozen letters have been sent to the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee urging it to reverse the ban prison authorities have placed on Militant issue no. 17 at Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone, Florida. More are on…
Rachele Fruit: the working class alternative in 2024 The widely discussed June 27 debate between President Joseph Biden and former President Donald Trump confirmed that neither capitalist candidate — nor their parties — are capable of addressing the social and…
In a victory upholding crucial constitutional freedoms, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the use of an anti-business fraud statute to target Joseph Fischer for his part in the Jan. 6, 2021, melee at the Capitol. This was rapidly followed…
Protests erupted across Kenya June 25, with tens of thousands of mostly young demonstrators pouring into central Nairobi, the country’s capital, as the government passed legislation jacking up taxes on eggs, bread, sugar, cooking oil, diapers and other necessities. When…
The American Farm Bureau issued a report leading into the July 4 holiday showing how persistent inflation has boosted the cost of this year’s holiday barbecue to a record high. The average cost for feeding a group of 10 will…
MONTREAL — Some 680 mechanics and maintenance workers at WestJet, Canada’s second-largest airline, went on strike June 28, despite a federal government order seeking to force them into compulsory binding arbitration. The workers are fighting for their first union contract…
CINCINNATI — After the news broke that Jew-haters had attacked a Jewish cemetery complex here, Socialist Workers Party candidates John Hawkins for U.S. Senate and Ned Measel for U.S. Congress in the First District spoke out. “The cowardly toppling of…
