Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, speaks at public meeting in London Aug. 24, organized by Communist League, at end of her weeklong visit to the U.K.
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‘The working class needs its own party, a party of labor’

Rachele Fruit: ‘Workers in the US, UK face common enemy’ LONDON — Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, ended her weeklong visit to the U.K. at a public meeting here Aug. 24, organized by the Communist League’s…



Rail workers battle combined forces of bosses, Canadian gov’t

MONTREAL — “We haven’t seen a class confrontation in Canada on this scale in decades,” Philippe Tessier, a Canadian National rail conductor and Teamster union strike picket captain, told a Militant Labor Forum here Aug. 24. In the final analysis,…


Defend Ukraine independence! Anti-war views spread in Russia

Workers from Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine at damaged Kapitalna coal mine in Ukraine’s southeast Donetsk region. Russian missile attack Aug. 6 injured several miners.

A month after Ukrainian forces drove into the Kursk region of Russia Aug. 6, opposition to the war is growing among Russian conscripts and their families. The Ukrainian offensive is aimed at dealing blows to Moscow’s invasion led by Russian…



Defend Israel as a refuge against Jew-hatred and pogroms today

The cold-blooded murder of six Israeli hostages by Hamas in late August is further proof that defeating the Tehran-backed group and demolishing its command structure is essential for defending Israel’s right to exist as a refuge for Jews. And for…


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Democrats attack Constitution, weaken checks on gov’t power

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President Joseph Biden announced proposals July 29 to gut the power of the U.S. Supreme Court and muzzle its justices in an attack on the constitutionally mandated role of the judiciary. Days later, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer deepened the…







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.