SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. — On a hot, muggy afternoon July 9, Dennis Richter, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, joined campaigners here outside a Hannaford supermarket. He met Robert Gray, a telephone lineman from Happy Valley, Pennsylvania, who…
When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion in 2022, he minced no words in explaining Ukraine is not really a nation at all and has no right to be one. “Modern Ukraine was entirely and fully created by Russia,”…
This month marks the 77th anniversary since thousands of survivors of the Holocaust boarded a ship in France, soon renamed Exodus 1947, in an attempt to rebuild their lives in Palestine. From the get-go the ship was trailed, then brutally…
“I learned that Florida prison officials have banned an issue of the Militant newspaper in violation of inmates’ constitutional rights and the right of the Militant to reach its subscribers,” Yecenia Arango, assistant branch manager of the St. Louis County…
MINNEAPOLIS — “If we fight, we win!” 100 members, family and supporters of Laborers’ Local 363 chanted as they rallied at the Labor Center here July 4. The union, which represents over 300 workers who take care of the park…
The final results of the French elections were an “unexpected blow” to the “far right,” the Washington Post claimed July 7, declaring the result “one of the greatest political upsets in recent French history.” Like much of the capitalist media,…
BURLINGTON, Vt. — Supporters of Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, began campaigning here, introducing the party and its program to thousands of working people across Vermont. In the process, they’re collecting more than twice the…
China’s Coast Guard vessels repeatedly rammed and then troops boarded Philippine naval vessels, injuring several sailors in the Spratly Islands June 17. The clash was the most violent encounter to date between Chinese and Filipino forces whose rulers both claim…
MONTREAL — Since the deadly Oct. 7 pogrom by Hamas in Israel there has been a rise in Jew-hating violence worldwide. Here in Canada, Hamas supporters have shot bullets at schools; carried out physical attacks, threats and vandalism at synagogues;…
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — In its June 25 final hearing on the February 2023 Norfolk Southern derailment and disaster for residents here, the National Transportation Safety Board said the rail company bears full responsibility. Board Chair Jennifer Homendy called their…
