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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…


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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…


Illinois ballot measure weakens the labor movement

Vol. 86/No. 42 - November 14, 2022

CHICAGO — The Nov. 8 ballot in Illinois includes Amendment 1, a referendum to change the state constitution that many union and Democratic Party officials promote as a “Workers Bill of Rights.” In fact, it does nothing to advance workers’…


Signalmen vote down proposed rail contract as workers’ fight continues

Vol. 86/No. 42 - November 14, 2022
Amtrak train hit truck in Missouri June 27 with four killed. Bosses stalled on putting in warning signals there. Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen voted down proposed contract Oct. 26.

LINCOLN, Neb. — “Railroad union members continue to organize protests to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with the bosses in their fight to get a contract that the membership will approve,” Jakob Forsgren, chair of local Lodge 1320 of the Brotherhood of…


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Vol. 86/No. 42 - November 14, 2022
Olivia Ortiz, left, shows Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for Congress in New Jersey, a video of her working construction job. Ortiz appreciated Militant’s coverage of Iran and subscribed.

Days before Nov. 8 elections, the Socialist Workers Party and its candidates are making a final push to reach working people with the party’s program and activities. Gabrielle Prosser, SWP candidate for governor of Minnesota, spoke at a candidates’ forum…