Casting aside any pretense at impartiality, special grand jury foreman Emily Kohrs has been on a “media tour” divulging selective details of the Democratic Party-run search for indictments targeting Donald Trump’s alleged interference in Georgia’s 2020 elections. A gleeful liberal…
Despite the announcement in early February by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that he would give amnesty to “tens of thousands” of prisoners, the actual numbers released as of Feb. 27 are in the hundreds. Thousands were imprisoned during…
NEW YORK — “We’re fighting to receive the pay raise we’re entitled to,” Yohan Fulgencio, an Uber driver since 2015, told the Militant Feb. 26. “With inflation, all of our operating expenses have gone up — gas, insurance, repairs, maintenance…
MONTREAL — Hundreds marched here Feb. 10 to protest the death of Nicous D’André Spring, a 21-year-old black man on Dec. 25, a day after he was assaulted by prison guards at Montreal’s Bordeaux prison. He was arrested Dec. 20…
MOUNT OLIVE, N.J. — “My father inherited his family’s debts, then we inherited his,” Hunter Hildebrant, 25, told the Militant at her family’s farm Feb. 18. Together with brothers Roy and Forrest, and twin sister Aspen, she grows tomatoes, onions,…
Socialist Workers Party members campaigned for party candidate Ilona Gersh running for Chicago mayor Feb. 25, outside the Alpha bakery where she works. The next day co-worker Kimarah Brown got a Militant subscription from Gersh and the new book The…
NEW YORK — On Feb. 21 about a dozen ultrarightists showed up outside the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical “Parade” to hold a Jew-hating protest, targeting the play’s central figure — Leo Frank. Frank, a Jewish factory manager at an Atlanta…
Tens of thousands demonstrated in more than 100 cities around the world Feb. 24 opposing Moscow’s brutal war against Ukraine and marking one year since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion. More than 10,000 people marched past the Brandenburg Gate in…
CHICAGO — Members and supporters of the Socialist Workers Party have stepped up campaigning for the party’s candidate for mayor, Ilona Gersh. They’re taking the campaign to fellow workers on their doorsteps, at factory gates and at protests called to…
The FBI will “never conduct investigative activities or open an investigation based solely on First Amendment protected activity,” the spy agency claimed as it shut down plans by its office in Richmond, Virginia, to launch a new spy operation aimed…
