Rachele Fruit, right, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, speaks with Boeing striker Howard Allen on picket line in Everett, Washington, Oct. 5, about key issues facing workers today.

‘Unions are stepping forward to take on the bosses attacks today’

‘We learned a lot in our campaign’: an interview with Socialist Workers Party candidates Rachele Fruit and Dennis Richter Rachele Fruit and Dennis Richter, the 2024 Socialist Workers Party candidates for president and vice president, presented the SWP’s working-class program…




Milk-Bone strikers fight attacks on health care, win labor support

Teamster Local 446 members join BCTGM Milk-Bone strikers Nov. 10 in Buffalo, New York.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Some 30 members and supporters of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 36G were on the picket line at the J.M. Smucker Company’s Milk-Bone factory here Nov. 10 when Militant worker-correspondents arrived to bring solidarity.…


Conference to build solidarity with Cuba across Asia meets in Beijing

Participants in 10th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of Solidarity with Cuba in Beijing Oct. 29. In front from left, Ambassador Phouangkeo Langsy, vice president of Laos-Cuba Friendship Association; Fernando González, president of Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples; Bijay Kumar Padhihari, general secretary, Indian Society for Cultural Co-Operation and Friendship; H.E. Mrs. Nin Saphon, National Assembly of Takeo Province, Cambodia.

BEIJING — The 65-year-long punishing sanctions imposed by Washington against the Cuban people and their socialist revolution were condemned by participants at the 10th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of Solidarity with Cuba, held here Oct. 29-30. The meeting took place as…


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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.