Spirited picket lines by flight attendants and their supporters at some 30 airports worldwide Feb. 13 gave voice to their demands for new contracts, higher wages and respect for the nearly 100,000 workers who have toiled for years under expired…
The current uptick in the U.S. economy, showing a 3.1% increase in gross domestic product last year, in job openings and a declining monthly rate of overall inflation, is good for the working class. It means workers have more confidence…
The Militant and the Socialist Workers Party are getting a hearing among workers and a welcome response in the labor movement. The Central Labor Council of Memphis and West Tennessee showed the front page of the Feb. 5 Militant on…
ATLANTA – A meeting to celebrate the political life and contributions of Bruce Kimball, a member and later a supporter of the Socialist Workers Party for more than 50 years, was held here Feb. 4. Kimball died of cancer Jan.…
In the largest anti-war manifestation since Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine almost two years ago, some 200,000 people waited in lines stretching for city blocks all across the country in January to sign petitions to put Boris Nadezhdin on…
MONTREAL — There have been 96 recorded cases of arson and graffiti attacks on churches across Canada, more than half of them Catholic churches, with several burned to the ground, since the discovery of what is likely the remains of…
Freedom of speech, assembly and worship and other rights working people need and use were won as a result of revolutionary struggles — the War of Independence, the Second American Revolution that overturned slavery and in many class battles since…
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — One year ago on Feb. 3 a Norfolk Southern train derailed and some 50 rail cars went on the ground here, including 11 cars of hazardous chemicals, five of which were loaded with toxic vinyl chloride.…
CHICAGO — Over 34,000 immigrant workers seeking asylum have arrived here since August 2022, sent by bus or plane by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Most are from Venezuela and other countries in Latin America. Some 15,000 are currently staying in…
The first-ever execution by nitrogen gas suffocation was carried out Jan. 25 when Kenneth Eugene Smith writhed in pain as he was put to death in Alabama’s Holman prison. “When they turned the nitrogen on he began to convulse,” Rev.…
