Over 40 unionists at SMART-TD-organized rally Dec. 13 in Denver back rail workers’ struggle over job conditions, for safer crew sizes and family-friendly work schedules.

Rail workers protest as gov’t imposes contract, bars strike

Rallies from Washington, DC, to Sparks, Nevada

CHICAGO — In rail yards and on locomotives across the country discussion and debate continue among rail workers over how to respond to the ongoing attacks from the rail bosses and the government. These include grueling schedules, draconian attendance policies,…


Defend Ukraine independence! Demand Putin get out now!

Kyiv residents visit “invincibility center” Nov. 24 to warm up, share news, recharge phones. Ukrainian working people responded to Moscow’s bombs with renewed determination.

The Ukrainian people are withstanding some of the heaviest aerial bombardment since Moscow’s war began as they fight tenaciously to drive back its invasion. Russian President Vladimir Putin seeks to demoralize working people by crippling Ukraine’s power supplies as winter…



Communist League: ‘Down with Canadian rulers’ Emergencies Act’

Heavily armed Canadian police were mobilized under Emergencies Act to crush truckers’ “Freedom Convoy” protest in Ottawa Feb. 19, a serious threat to the whole labor movement.

MONTREAL — Six weeks of mandatory public hearings on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government imposition of the never-before-used Emergencies Act concluded Nov. 25. The act aimed to crush the three-week-long truckers’ “Freedom Convoy” protest in Ottawa and at border-crossing…



Case workers hold strike rallies in Wisconsin, Iowa

Striking United Auto Workers Local 180 members at Case New Holland rally in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, Dec. 17 to build support in fight for higher wages, affordable health care.

MOUNT PLEASANT, Wis. — Some 200 United Auto Workers Local 180 members and their supporters rallied in subfreezing weather here Dec. 17 to build support for their strike against the bosses at Case New Holland. The 600 Case workers at…

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Holiday greetings to workers behind bars

New Year greetings to our readers behind bars! The Militant will continue to tell the truth about the conditions you face and keep getting news about the struggles of working people worldwide into your hands. 2022 was quite a year!…



Socialist Workers Party leadership sets course ahead

Adopts course to build union solidarity • defend constitutional freedoms • fight for wages, hours, job conditions that prevent families in working class from being torn apart • defend Cuba’s socialist revolution and its example in the U.S. and world over
International Educational Conference in Oberlin, Ohio, June 8-10, brought together over 330 people for reports, discussion on communist program, continuity and activities. Right, SWP literature table during conference.
OBERLIN, Ohio — “The sweeping indictment of Donald Trump under the Espionage Act by President Joseph…






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.