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Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, Fighting Fund: March 14 – May 12 (week six)

25, 50, and 75 years ago

May 7, 2001 The grotesque spectacle being prepared by the Bush administration for the execution of Timothy McVeigh, the man convicted of the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, is part of the rulers’ effort to divide the…

Support builds for striking Metro workers in Montreal

MONTREAL — Striking workers at the giant Metro supermarket chain here continue to win support for their fight for a better contract. The Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN), their union, has condemned Metro bosses for using contract drivers as…

‘Militant’ fights to end weeks of bans by Florida prisons

In a victory for the Militant and its 135 readers behind bars in Florida, the Literature Review Committee of the state’s Department of Corrections overturned the ban on Militant issue no. 10. The Militant was notified of the decision April…

SWP presents working-class road forward at LA book fair

LOS ANGELES — As they have for years, supporters of Pathfinder books set up a booth at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books April 18-19. One of the largest book fairs in the U.S., an estimated 150,000 attended this…

US rulers to rebuild industry to make weapons for war

“We are pivoting the Pentagon and our industrial base to a wartime footing,” War Secretary Peter Hegseth announced last November. The capitalist rulers in the U.S. know that they are far from ready for the wars that are inevitable as…

Tale of two wars: Moscow attacks civilians, Ukraine targets military

More than four years into President Vladimir Putin’s war to seize Ukrainian territory and deal blows to its people, Moscow is targeting airstrikes on civilians in Ukrainian cities. The Russian government’s goal is to try to overwhelm Ukraine’s air defenses…

New Jersey SWP campaign nears goal in ballot drive

UNION CITY,  N.J. — Washington’s wars are part of “a deliberate course to advance the bipartisan state policy of the U.S. ruling capitalist families,” Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey, told participants at an…

Rally April 29 to demand TPS status for Haitians be extended!

Support is building for a rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., April 29, to demand a halt to the administration’s drive to end Temporary Protected Status for some 350,000 Haitians and 7,000 Syrians. Elimination of this legal status…

Appeals court ends judge’s probe into deportations

A ruling handed down by the U.S. District Appeals Court in Washington, D.C., April 14 dealt a blow to immigrants’ constitutional right to due process and a hearing before being deported. It also threw out an ongoing contempt case pursued…