The bosses and their political parties — facing increasing cutthroat competition and conflict worldwide — are stepping up their assaults on working people at home and abroad. To defend their dog-eat-dog profit system, they’re driving to lower our living standards,…
Well-known author Heather Ann Thompson is suing the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision for banning prisoners in the state from reading her award-winning book on the Attica prison rebellion, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison…
Reza Baraheni, a world-renowned leader in the fight for political and artistic freedom in Iran, died in Toronto March 24 at age 86. He was among that country’s most prominent poets, novelists and literary critics of the last half century.…
Thirty-five years after a counterrevolutionary coup in 1987, a court in Burkina Faso, West Africa, rendered guilty verdicts April 6 after a six-month trial for the assassination of President Thomas Sankara, and 12 of his comrades and guards. Blaise Compaore,…
For weeks in 2020 hundreds of thousands of working people joined an uprising to bring down the regime of President Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus after he stole the presidential election. With backing from Russian President Vladimir Putin, Lukashenko put down…
“When we see union teachers, steelworkers and miners on strike it sends a message,” Dakota Dearry, 29, told Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of Texas, at an April 6 rally in McCalla, Alabama. The United Mine Workers…
As the invading army of Russian President Vladimir Putin commits atrocities against the Ukrainian people, how should working people who are seeking to defend Ukrainian independence approach Russian soldiers? Are they complicit with the Putin regime? Or is it possible…
TERREBONNE, Quebec — “I’m fed up being run by threats,” striker Patrick Sirois told the Militant on the Sobeys distribution center picket line here April 9. The 190 United Food and Commercial Workers Local 501 members, on strike since Feb.…
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — “Now the real fight begins,” Amazon worker Angelika Maldonado, a packer on night shift, told a press conference here April 8. She was referring to Amazon bosses’ moves to overturn the election where a solid majority…
