US hands off Iran! End all Washington’s sanctions now!

Vol. 83/No. 35 - September 30, 2019

A series of drone and missile attacks, claimed by Iranian-backed Houthi forces in Yemen, severely damaged Saudi Arabia’s biggest oil site Sept. 14, cutting world oil supplies and escalating prices. President Donald Trump threatened the U.S. military was “locked and…


SWP campaigns, wins support for workers organizing to fight

Vol. 83/No. 35 - September 30, 2019

SEATTLE — “We are seeing important examples of workers organizing to fight to change their conditions on the job. This is a change,” explained Alyson Kennedy, to nearly 40 people at a Socialist Workers Party campaign rally in Seattle Sept.…


Hurricane Dorian exposed depth of class divisions in the Bahamas

Vol. 83/No. 35 - September 30, 2019

Hurricane Dorian exposed the class divide between the wealthy ruling families and working people in the Bahamas, the disregard of the government for the lives of the majority who live there and the class values of the U.S. rulers, who…


Walmart is just ‘a modern day sweatshop’

Vol. 83/No. 35 - September 30, 2019

SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — “You can’t make people work in total darkness,” one Walmart worker told the Militant after managers at the store here demanded employees continue working after a power outage shut down the lights from midday to almost…


Join in building support for Kentucky coal miners’ fight!

Bosses demand court end Blackjewel miners’ protest
Vol. 83/No. 34 - September 23, 2019
Kentucky coal miners fighting for pay stolen from them when Blackjewel bosses declared bankruptcy. Chinese restaurant owner Joyce Cheng, at center, has raised over $5,000 for them.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Blackjewel coal miners in Harlan County and their supporters have been camped out on the rail tracks outside the Cloverlick No. 3 mine since July 29, determined to keep their former bosses from moving about 100 rail…


Disaster facing Bahamians is product of the capitalist system

Vol. 83/No. 34 - September 23, 2019

“We are on our own,” Bahamian volunteer fireman Greg Johnson told the press Sept. 6 in Treasure Cay, explaining the inaction of the government of the Bahamas in the wake of Hurricane Dorian. “It’s deplorable.” Working people were left to…


‘Militant’ wins again in battle against Florida prison bans

Vol. 83/No. 34 - September 23, 2019

As the campaign against suppression of the Militant  by Florida prison wardens gathers momentum, the Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee  overturned the latest impoundments of two more issues of the socialist newsweekly Aug. 28. And they did so before…


‘Economic recovery is not how most workers would describe life today’

Vol. 83/No. 34 - September 23, 2019
Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate in 2016, talks to Markus Nalumu in Burien, Washington, Sept. 10. “I commend you for what you’re doing,” he said.

“For millions of working people in this country ‘economic recovery’ is not how they would describe their conditions of life over the past 10 years,” Paul Mailhot, a member of the Socialist Workers Party National Committee, told the opening celebration…



Gibson’s bakery scores another victory against Oberlin attacks

Vol. 83/No. 34 - September 23, 2019

In a victory for the Gibson family and working people, Lorraine County, Ohio, Judge John Miraldi Sept. 9 denied motions by Oberlin College asking him to either grant them a new trial or overturn the jury verdict finding the college…