Ingredion workers rally, win wide support in Iowa strike

Sept. 1 rally of Ingredion workers in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on strike since Aug. 1. Some 122 members of Bakery Workers union Local 100G are fighting bosses to win contract gains.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Nearly 200 strikers, family members, fellow unionists and community supporters marched and rallied at the Ingredion plant here Sept. 1. The 122 members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 100G at Ingredion have…


‘Militant’ wins fight against ban in Arizona federal prison

In an important victory for the free exchange of ideas and freedom of the press, prison authorities at the Federal Correctional Institution in Phoenix have reversed their unconstitutional ban on two issues of the Militant. The Militant has resent the…


White House attacks target constitutional protections

Backed by Democrats from the party’s fraying factions, President Joseph Biden, along with never-Trump Republicans, the New York Times and the rest of the liberal press, have stepped up their relentless drive against Donald Trump and the 74 million people…



Defend Ukraine independence! Moscow out of all of Ukraine now!

For over six months, the Ukrainian people have mobilized and fought to prevent Moscow’s forces from conquering their country and crushing its independence. Repulsing attacks on Kyiv, the capital, and elsewhere in the northeast, they have sapped the morale of…


Capitalism’s crisis lowers life span of working people

Lori Spencer was barred from visiting her mother in Kirkland, Washington, nursing home in March 2020. Over 200,000 patients and staff in facilities like this died from COVID, loneliness.

As part of the crisis of capitalism today, working people in the U.S. have been living through a sharp drop in U.S. life expectancy over the past couple of years. And young people have experienced the worst decline in math…

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Cuba and Chernobyl

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.