OAKLAND, Calif. — A protest and strike by owner-operator truckers and their supporters tied up the Port of Oakland for five days July 18-22. Hundreds began picketing the first day, flagging all truckers away from terminal entrances. The next day,…
Russian missiles struck Ukraine’s key Black Sea port of Odesa July 23 just one day after Moscow signed an agreement brokered by the U.N. and Turkish government to unblock shipments by Kyiv of Ukrainian grain exports stored there. The Ukrainian…
The U.S. capitalist rulers face a political crisis. Plunging support for President Joseph Biden in the polls; continued anti-Trump hysteria by liberals, the middle-class left and Never-Trump Republicans; as well as deepening divisions tearing at both the Democratic and Republican…
“I’m a Democrat, but I don’t agree with a lot of what’s going on, including what’s in the media, whether it’s CNN or Fox News. You can’t trust either side,” Hamza Hassan told Joel Britton, Socialist Workers Party candidate for…
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met in Tehran July 19, in the shadow of Moscow’s war on Ukraine. All three powers at the summit clash with Washington, but each has its…
STURTEVANT, Wis. — “I’m not going to get my hopes up, but negotiations are scheduled to resume the week of Aug. 14,” United Auto Workers Local 807 President Nick Guernsey told the Militant by phone July 24. More than 1,000…
A Miami jury found Argentine naval officer Roberto Guillermo Bravo liable July 1 for his role in what has become known as the Trelew Massacre, in a civil case brought by relatives of four of 19 political prisoners who were…
This Cuban documentary produced in 2006 tells the story of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine and Cuba’s exemplary internationalist medical program that treated more than 25,000 victims.
