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…
Feb. 24 marks one year since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine, expecting a rapid victory. Instead, he has run into battlefield reversals from Kyiv and Kharkiv to Kherson at the hands of working people in Ukraine…
Prison officials at Florida’s privately run Blackwater River Correctional Facility banned an issue of the Militant on Feb. 1. Their reason? According to the rejection notice sent to the paper, they allege that two front-page articles in issue no. 4…
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Talking with workers, farmers and small-business people in this area, members of the Socialist Workers Party found many have serious questions about the long-term effects of the derailment of 50 cars on a Norfolk Southern train…
For more than a century following the American Revolution, the Constitution’s provision that presidents regularly “give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union,” was carried out by submitting written reports. Over the past 100 years, the two…
Campaigning in working-class neighborhoods in cities and rural areas, members and supporters of the Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom are finding a lot of interest in the new book, The Low Point…
MANCHESTER, England — Almost 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement, the British rulers’ grip on Northern Ireland is weaker than ever. Cross-border trade in Ireland has increased, pro-unification forces are gaining momentum and pro-British Unionist parties in Northern Ireland…
MONTREAL — Communist League leader Michel Prairie welcomed close to 30 people at a meeting here Feb. 11 to celebrate publication of The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward. The new book…
Amid rising tensions between the capitalist rulers in the U.S. and China, Washington tracked and then shot down a Chinese balloon Feb. 4, saying it was spying on U.S. territory after it flew over North America. For years the U.S.…
