Statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Congress from New Jersey, Sept. 30. Kuniansky is a member of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union. Working people confront both deteriorating living standards caused by soaring prices…
Despite the Ukraine capitalist government’s imposition of a ban on strikes and protests following Moscow’s invasion in February, coal miners went on strike at Mine No. 9 in Novovolynsk Sept. 14 to block a new manager from seizing control of…
Rising prices are wreaking havoc with the lives of working people and our families worldwide. Inflation reduces the value of our wages as we confront higher costs for food, fuel, housing and other essentials, and rising debts. Now we confront…
Protests by tens of thousands of people over the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, have spread to over 80 cities across Iran and to every province, as well as into the Kurdish region of Iraq that borders…
LIVERPOOL, England — Over 600 dockworkers, organized by the Unite union, went on strike here Sept. 20. Mass, lively pickets have been set up in front of the port. The port workers and maintenance engineers rejected a pay increase of…
Hundreds of working people in Tunisia protested in the capital Sept. 25 against rising prices and food shortages, amid a deepening capitalist political crisis engulfing the country. Demonstrators chanted, “We can’t support crazy price hikes,” and “Jobs, freedom and national…
LONGVIEW, Wash. — Over 1,100 lumber workers struck Weyerhaeuser operations in Washington and Oregon Sept. 13. Four International Association of Machinists union locals organize workers at four sawmills, two log export facilities, two log truck operations and seven logging camps.…
As the Militant reported last week, the capitalist media acts like rail workers’ contracts are all settled and done with, but the fact is most rail union members either are just now receiving the tentative agreements to look at and…
Millions of working people in the U.S. and worldwide stand with protesters across Iran in response to the death of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman who died in the hands of the reactionary regime’s notorious “morality police.” She was arrested…
Members of the Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K. have kicked off the eight-week campaign to sell 1,350 Militant subscriptions, the same number of books and pamphlets that offer a revolutionary road forward, and…
