Chinese warships and warplanes launched live-fire “exercises” surrounding Taiwan the day after an Aug. 2-3 visit to the island by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit there in 25 years. Beijing says the island is part…
In a sweeping attack on constitutional rights, the Joe Biden administration ordered a pre-dawn raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, carried out by 30 or more heavily armed FBI and Secret Service agents. During the nine-hour…
PHILADELPHIA — “You’re on the ballot! And good luck!” Larry Otter, the Socialist Workers Party’s lawyer in Pennsylvania, told Chris Hoeppner, the SWP candidate for U.S. Congress from the 3rd District, and the Militant Aug. 9. “Despite moves by state…
Nearly six months after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a war to snuff out Ukraine’s independence and subjugate its people, Moscow’s offensive has largely stalled in the face of resolute Ukrainian resistance. Despite this, the Kremlin continues to unleash murderous…
BROOKWOOD, Ala. — In a calculated attack on workers’ right to strike, the National Labor Relations Board Region 10 on Aug. 2 ordered the United Mine Workers of America to pay $13.3 million to Brookwood-based Warrior Met Coal, where hundreds…
For more than 50 years, inmates in federal prisons have subscribed to the Militant with little interference by prison authorities. But in a serious threat to constitutional rights to free speech and freedom of the press, the warden at…
By a significant margin in a statewide referendum Aug. 2, voters in Kansas rejected an amendment to the state Constitution that would have made it read it “does not create or secure a right to abortion.” Hundreds of thousands voted…
The Militant ’s summer drive to expand the paper’s long-term readership has gone over the top! The five-week international effort for renewals by members of the Socialist Workers Party in the U.S. and the Communist Leagues in Australia, New Zealand,…
GALESBURG, Ill. — More than 150 railroad workers, family members and their supporters joined in the “Galesburg Rally for Rail Labor” here July 30, one of a series of protests being organized by rail workers across the Midwest as part…
