Democrats’ attacks on rights at heart of US class struggle

Vol. 86/No. 43 - November 21, 2022
Former FBI directors Robert Mueller, left, and his replacement James Comey, June 21, 2013. Both served as lead special prosecutors in Democrats’ witch hunt against President Donald Trump. Democratic officials are considering new prosecutor to try to stop him if he runs again.

Throughout the final days of the 2022 campaign, Democrats centered their fire on former President Donald Trump. They claim “democracy itself” is threatened if he ever holds office again. Before Trump was even elected in 2016, Democrats unleashed the FBI…


Working conditions, firing by UPS lead Kentucky worker to suicide

Vol. 86/No. 42 - November 14, 2022

After being fired on Oct. 5, a pregnant UPS worker committed suicide in the company’s huge Worldport facility in Louisville, Kentucky, the world’s largest automated package sorting facility. Twenty thousand workers, many of whom are members of Teamsters Local 89,…


Protests: End US embargo of Cuba now!

Vol. 86/No. 42 - November 14, 2022

NEW YORK — Opponents of Washington’s six-decade-long economic war against Cuba demonstrated here and across the country Oct. 29. Some 200 people from New York, New Jersey and cities as far away as Boston and Miami marched from Times Square…


Donate your California gas-tax rebate to the ‘Militant’

Vol. 86/No. 42 - November 14, 2022

Workers are being hard hit by soaring prices for food, gas, rents, medical expenses and more. The Militant newspaper — which fighting workers and trade unionists depend on for clarity on politics and as a guide to action — is…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 86/No. 42 - November 14, 2022

November 17, 1997 Washington’s latest military threats against Iraq show the weakness of U.S. imperialism. In 1991 the U.S. rulers broke their teeth in Iraq. After organizing one of the most monstrous carnages in the history of modern warfare, they…


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Vol. 86/No. 42 - November 14, 2022
Rachele Fruit, candidata del PST para gobernadora de Florida, habla con Duchelande St. Fleur y su esposo Peter Carmant, en North Miami, el 31 de octubre, sobre el programa del PST.

In the final days of the 2022 campaign, Socialist Workers Party candidates are advancing a fighting working-class program, backing rail workers’ battle for livable working conditions and explaining why opposing government assaults on constitutional freedoms is central for working people.…


Communist League: ‘Repeal Canada’s Emergencies Act!’

Vol. 86/No. 42 - November 14, 2022
Canadian police use pepper spray as they wade into truckers and other protesters in Ottawa Feb. 19, part of largest use of government-ordered repression in modern Canadian history.

MONTREAL — Last February the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau implemented the draconian Emergencies Act to suppress the “Freedom Convoy” of hundreds of truckers and supporters who gathered to protest in Canada’s capital. The federal Public Order Emergency Commission…


Gov’t violence fails to stop Iran protests, int’l solidarity

Vol. 86/No. 42 - November 14, 2022

“Do not come to the streets. Today is the last day of riots,” Hossein Salami, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran, said Oct. 29, threatening protesters across the country that continuing their actions “will bring no happy…



Back Ukraine independence! Protest Putin’s mass bombing

Vol. 86/No. 42 - November 14, 2022
Russian missiles hit Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, Oct. 10. Moscow hits power generators, aiming to make millions suffer over the winter, but just made Ukrainians more determined to fight.

For over eight months, Ukrainian working people have pushed back the assault by the KGB-police-state regime of Vladimir Putin on their country’s independence. Moscow is retaliating with a brutal bombardment of Ukrainian cities and power infrastructure. After battlefield defeats, Putin’s…