The labor movement should join rail workers in fighting President Joseph Biden’s intervention in contract talks between rail bosses and unions aimed at preventing the workers from using their union power, after they voted by 99% to strike against industry-wide…
Determined to conquer Ukraine and crush its existence as an independent nation, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his forces to resume their offensive in the east July 16. This cut short a 10-day-old pause aimed at replenishing their depleted and…
August 11, 1997 Working people in the United States and around the world should join our brothers and sisters in Cuba in denouncing the latest terrorist bombings of tourist hotels in Havana. Whether the U.S. government has a direct hand…
Soaring inflation over the past year and a half is battering the lives of millions of working people worldwide. Combined with the impact of the capitalist crisis on jobs, price hikes are making it increasingly difficult for workers to keep…
“I need this paper,” school teacher Juawana Kinnard told Socialist Workers Party member Anthony Dutrow as they sat on her porch in Cincinnati and she signed up to renew her Militant subscription July 8. “All the other news I see…
OAKLAND, Calif. — Some 400 truck drivers, mostly independent owner-operators, began a three-day strike July 18 at the Port of Oakland. They are protesting AB5, a law passed by the California legislature in 2019, that puts extra burdens on owner-operators…
LINCOLN, Neb. — On July 14 the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Division (SMART-TD) informed their members, the rail conductors and locomotive engineers who operate freight trains on the major railroads…
President Joseph Biden’s July 13-16 trip to the Middle East revealed the weakened state of U.S. imperialism and the inability of the Biden administration to achieve gains for the U.S. capitalist rulers against their rivals. For decades the Iranian rulers…
Thousands of protesters occupying the residence of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the office of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe handed the buildings back to the government July 14 after Rajapaksa fled to Singapore and resigned. The occupation of the…
