Dennis Richter, left, SWP candidate for U.S. vice president, joined picket of 200 Service Employees International Union members at Los Angeles airport Oct. 11 for higher wages.

‘Working class needs to take political power’

SWP Vice Presidential candidate Richter: ‘Defending Israel’s right to exist is in the interests of the world working class’ LOS ANGELES — “Hamas’ so-called Al-Aqsa Flood — their name for the deadly pogrom they carried out in Israel a little…


Seattle union support grows for machinists Boeing strike

SEATTLE — Over 500 workers on strike at Boeing packed the International Association of Machinists Local 751 hall here Oct. 15, chanting, “One day longer, one day stronger” and “Pension! Pension!” Hundreds more spilled outside the hall, where supporters from…


Mideast showdown: Israelis fight to defend a refuge from Jew-hatred

As it threatens to destroy Israel, the reactionary bourgeois regime in Tehran is worried about growing opposition among working people in Iran to its military adventures in the region. Above, teachers and retirees protest for higher wages, pensions in Tehran Oct. 13.

The Israeli government has released documents its forces captured in Gaza that provide further proof Iran’s capitalist rulers and the leadership of Hezbollah in Lebanon — despite their denials — were centrally involved in the yearslong preparations for Hamas’ Oct.…




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1970: When postal workers said ‘enough’ and went on strike

Cartoon from March 1970 special Militant issue backing postal strike. At the time President Richard Nixon, on top of pile of letters, threatened to order the U.S. Army to deliver the mail.

Over the past two weeks, postal workers — members of the American Postal Workers Union, National Association of Letter Carriers and National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association — have organized protest actions across the country against the government, which has refused…







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.