Democrats and Republicans are tied up in partisan squabbling over President Joseph Biden’s $6.8 trillion budget plan. While they disagree on Biden’s proposed social expenditures and new taxes to fund them, both parties agree on the need to allocate billions…
The collapse of three regional banks and the underlying fall in the value of U.S. government bonds caused by rising interest rates is a symptom of the ongoing crisis of capitalist production and trade, and a harbinger of further crises…
CAMDEN, N.J. — Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey state Senate, along with Chris Hoeppner, SWP candidate for mayor of Philadelphia, and this Militant reporter, visited the sanitation workers picket line here in solidarity March 4. The…
March 30, 1998 DES MOINES, Iowa — Members of the United Steelworkers of America rallied in downtown Des Moines March 6 to support members of the United Auto Workers now in contract talks with Case Corp. The protest aimed its…
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Socialist Workers Party members visited with workers and farmers here March 13-14, discussing how rail workers and other union members, farmers, small proprietors and youth in the area can come together to force Norfolk Southern rail…
HAVANA — While in Cuba for the Havana International Book Fair in February, several volunteers at the Pathfinder Press stand who are rail workers were able to exchange experiences with leaders of Cuba’s National Union of Transportation and Port Workers…
MONTREAL — “Working people and our unions should oppose Premier Francois Legault’s anti-working-class campaign against immigrants. This is now centered on demanding that Ottawa shut down the unofficial Roxham Road crossing between Canada and the U.S. used by thousands of…
BRIDPORT, Vt. — “There were 42 dairy farms in this area in the 1980s,” 11th-generation dairy farmer Paul Plouffe told these two Militant worker-correspondents when we visited his farm here Feb. 5. “Now there are just eight left, after a…
Weekly protests by retired workers in Iran that began Jan. 22 demanding the government raise social security payments to keep up with inflation continue. On March 12 and 13 retirees from the steel, telecommunications, sugar and other industries protested in…
With this issue the international campaign begins to expand the reach of the Militant and books by Socialist Workers Party and other revolutionary leaders and to raise $165,000 for the paper. Members of the SWP and Communist Leagues in Australia,…
