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…
Click below for downloadable pdfs of this article in English, French, and Spanish “We have an unusual opportunity this year to go straight out of this conference into campaigning and other activity focused on the…
MANCHESTER, England — Rail bosses’ attempt to fire union fighter Peter Clifford here is being met by a strong response from workers and their union determined to win his job back. A statement from Clifford’s Rail, Maritime and Transport union…
June 23, 1997 In his recent travels, president William Clinton has been touting the Marshall Plan between 1948 and 1951 as a model for peace and economic development. Under this scheme, the U.S. rulers provided $13 billion in loans to…
RICHMOND, Calif. — After 10 weeks on strike, hundreds of workers at the Chevron refinery here voted May 27-28 to accept the latest company offer and return to work. The contract was similar to the one they rejected twice, before…
The assassination in Tehran May 22 of Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, an operative of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Quds Force, widely believed to have been carried out by Israel’s spy and counterterrorism agency Mossad, has ratcheted up tensions in the Middle…
Oberlin College officials filed an appeal with the Ohio Supreme Court May 13 following two consecutive losses both in a jury trial and in the state Court of Appeals in the case brought by the Gibson family, owners of the…
