Thomas Matthew Crooks came within a hair’s breadth of assassinating Donald Trump when he opened fire with a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle at the Republican presidential candidate, who was speaking at a campaign rally of thousands in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13.…
The July 9-11 summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization held in Washington, D.C., highlighted the dangers of wider wars worldwide driven by deepening conflicts unfolding today between the world’s capitalist rulers. NATO was one of the institutions Washington put…
Both in Mexico, where production is rapidly expanding for export to the U.S., and in western Texas, one of the centers of oil fracking in the country, independent truckers are coming together to demand better pay, improved working conditions and…
The Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee informed Militant attorney David Goldstein it has scheduled an “initial review” July 18 on the paper’s appeal of the banning of Militant issue no. 17 by the Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone,…
NORDEN, Germany — A trip I made to Germany in early July brought home how alive the legacy of the Nazi Holocaust remains here, and its relevance given the rise of Jew-hatred worldwide, especially after Hamas’ Oct. 7 pogrom, which…
LONDON — “Our campaign starts from how to mobilize millions to defend the interests of working people,” Peter Clifford, the Communist League candidate for the Manchester Rusholme constituency told a candidates’ debate July 2, during the recent parliamentary elections. “The…
SAN DIEGO — Some 13,500 librarians, authors, illustrators and exhibitors attended the American Library Association annual conference here June 27-July 2, including 340 librarians from 51 other countries. More than 500 exhibitors displayed their wares, including Pathfinder Press. Volunteers at…
On July 2 the U.S. federal Parole Commission once again denied Leonard Peltier’s request for parole. The hearing, the first in over a decade, took place June 10. Peltier, a leader of the American Indian Movement, has been in federal…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Socialist Workers Party leaders John Benson and Susan LaMont, above, filed to put the party’s presidential ticket — Rachele Fruit for president and Dennis Richter for vice president — on the ballot July 8. They turned in…
In one of the largest barrages yet, Hezbollah launched 200 rockets and mortars and more than 20 drones from Lebanon into northern Israel July 4, killing one Israeli soldier in the Golan Heights and setting fires as far away as…
