“We need a change. What we are going through is not sustainable,” trucker Kenneth Kirkland told Chris Hoeppner, a railroad worker and Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress from Pennsylvania, at a truck stop in Bentleyville, south of Pittsburgh,…
MONTREAL — Some 750 signal and communications workers, members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, went on strike against the Canadian National Railway June 18 after negotiations broke down and the bosses demanded the union agree to submit unresolved…
The Democratic Party’s relentless drive to prevent former President Donald Trump from running again in 2024 stepped up a gear starting June 9 with hours of televised House Select Committee hearings probing the Jan. 6, 2021, incursion at the Capitol…
LONDON — More than ten thousand trade unionists from around the U.K. joined a June 18 demonstration here to protest mounting assaults on living standards. The action was called by the Trades Union Congress. “We’re being mugged,” Mesol Sapie, a…
Opioid overdoses ravaging cities and rural areas alike killed nearly 110,000 people in the U.S. last year. And increasing numbers of state governments are legalizing and seeking to profit off the sale of marijuana. At the Cannabis World Congress and…
Striking Warrior Met coal miners “are fighting against powerful forces in Alabama who want nothing more than to strip away everything we’ve earned,” United Mine Workers of America Secretary-Treasurer Brian Sanson told the national convention of the AFL-CIO union federation…
Putin’s war on Ukraine is having a ripple effect in the Middle East, including weakening Moscow’s forces in Syria. Along with Tehran-backed militias, the Russian intervention is essential to propping up the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad. This is intensifying the…
“Compared to last year, government control this year was even stronger,” Daniel Chan wrote the Militant from Hong Kong June 15. He was referring to the large police operation blocking protesters there trying to hold a vigil to mark the…
“We are called the iron people,” train driver Yurii Yelisieiev, 42, told the June 16 Wall Street Journal. He was referring to Ukrainian rail workers, who, as part of the resistance to Moscow’s war, have kept this vital freight and…
Statement by Lea Sherman, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress from New Jersey, June 22. Working people face high stakes in defending ourselves and our families from rampant price hikes and boss attacks today. The threat of an economic…
