Ukraine gov’t uses martial law to impose anti-labor laws

Vol. 86/No. 29 - August 8, 2022

Ignoring opposition by a united labor movement, the Ukrainian parliament is taking advantage of Moscow’s invasion and martial law conditions, which ban strikes and protests, to pass anti-labor laws long sought by the country’s bosses. Crafted by the capitalist government…


Support Ukraine independence! Get Moscow’s troops out now!

Vol. 86/No. 29 - August 8, 2022

Russian missiles struck Ukraine’s key Black Sea port of Odesa July 23 just one day after Moscow signed an agreement brokered by the U.N. and Turkish government to unblock shipments by Kyiv of Ukrainian grain exports stored there. The Ukrainian…


Myanmar resistance protests execution of political prisoners

Vol. 86/No. 29 - August 8, 2022

Still unable to stamp out resistance to its rule 17 months after they carried out a bloody coup, Myanmar’s military brass is stepping up repression, executing four political opponents July 23, the first use of the death penalty in more…


US rulers face political crisis as workers seek road forward

Vol. 86/No. 29 - August 8, 2022

The U.S. capitalist rulers face a political crisis. Plunging support for President Joseph Biden in the polls; continued anti-Trump hysteria by liberals, the middle-class left and Never-Trump Republicans; as well as deepening divisions tearing at both the Democratic and Republican…


40,000 UK rail workers strike for better pay, against job cuts

Vol. 86/No. 29 - August 8, 2022

LONDON — Forty thousand members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union stopped work and joined picket lines around the country July 27. Workers — cleaners, signalers, maintenance workers, station staff and others — are fighting for an inflation-protected wage…


Join campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books by SWP leaders

Vol. 86/No. 29 - August 8, 2022
Community activist and retired truck driver Eugene Jenkins gets Militant subscription from Candace Wagner, SWP candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, July 22 in Philadelphia.

“I’m a Democrat, but I don’t agree with a lot of what’s going on, including what’s in the media, whether it’s CNN or Fox News. You can’t trust either side,” Hamza Hassan told Joel Britton, Socialist Workers Party candidate for…





Montreal Casino strikers enter third month on the picket line

Vol. 86/No. 29 - August 8, 2022

MONTREAL — Montreal Casino strikers, members of Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 3939, are into their third month on strike for pay raises large enough to counter the impact of soaring inflation and for safer working conditions. They told…