Back Ukraine independence!Get Moscow’s troops out now!

Unite Ukrainian, Russian workers against Putin’s war!
Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022
Students, teachers in Rivne, Ukraine, organize June 1 fundraising race to help rebuild Chernihiv, hard hit by Moscow’s assault. Speakers included head of union at nuclear power plant there.

Moscow’s invasion and murderous bombardment of Ukraine has been resisted tenaciously by the Ukrainian people for over three months, opening a new stage in the decline and disintegration of the capitalist “world order” set up after World War II. The…


Gun violence, crime are result of today’s crisis of capitalism

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022
Col. Maurice Tawes fails to get civil rights leader Gloria Richardson to call off July 15, 1963, picket of segregated drug store in Cambridge, Maryland. Crime rate in the city plunged 75% during 1962-63 fight against Jim Crow segregation there. Richardson led the struggle, with union backing, in face of attacks from racist thugs and National Guard occupation of the city.

The horrifying mass shooting that killed 21 children and teachers at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, has sparked heated debate and mutual accusations of blame on the left and right of capitalist politics. None address the root cause…


After over a year, Warrior Met strikers stand strong

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022

ATLANTA — “We’re keeping up our weekly solidarity rallies,” striking Warrior Met coal miner Otis Sims told the Militant in a phone interview May 29. “They’re important. Now we have them outside UMWA Local 2397’s union hall in Brookwood every…


SWP files for ballot in Minnesota, plans campaigning across the US

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022
Minnesota’s Faribault Daily News reporter Kristine Goodrich interviews SWP candidates Gabrielle Prosser and Kevin Dwire while they campaign in Walmart parking lot there May 26.

MINNEAPOLIS — During two weeks of daily campaigning through May 31, supporters of the Socialist Workers Party’s ticket of Gabrielle Prosser for governor and Kevin Dwire for lieutenant governor collected 2,566 signatures — well over the state’s requirement of 2,000…


Newark nurses strike over safety, staffing levels

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022
Striking New Jersey nurses rally May 24. Margarita Prodon, with sign, explained conditions nurses face.

NEWARK, N.J. — The 350 nurses and technicians at St. Michael’s Medical Center here, members of JNESO Council 1 International Union of Operating Engineers, struck May 23 for a decent contract. “During negotiations, management has demonstrated a lack of willingness…


Arson at Wyoming family planning clinic is attack on women’s rights

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022

An arsonist damaged a family planning and women’s health center under construction in Casper, Wyoming, May 25. Wellspring Health Access, a national health care nonprofit that provides reproductive care in rural areas, plans to offer a range of services, including…


Cuban farmers celebrate 1959 agrarian reform, revolution

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022

From very early in the morning farmers in Cuba held political events and festivities around the island to celebrate the 63rd anniversary of the First Agrarian Reform law. The May 17, 1959, act, more than any other, defined the character…


US gov’t, Seoul announce new provocations against NKorea

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022

President Joseph Biden embarked on his first visit to South Korea May 20-22, where he and newly elected South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol announced plans to expand provocative joint war games and to push increased economic sanctions against North…