Liberals desperate to boost President Joseph Biden’s reelection hopes claim there is an unprecedented “upswing” in the U.S. economy underway today. At a meeting of the United Auto Workers in Warren, Michigan, Feb. 1, Biden bragged the U.S. has “the…
Long lines of French farmers driving their tractors blocked traffic around Paris and across France Jan. 29, demanding the government of President Emmanuel Macron and European Union officials put an end to policies that threaten their livelihoods. Faced with skyrocketing…
Teachers and aides on strike in Newton, Massachusetts, remain solid on the picket lines in the longest teachers strike in recent state history. The Newton Teachers Association members voted by 98% to strike Jan. 18, after more than a year…
The state of Alabama has set Jan. 25 for the execution of death-row prisoner Kenneth Eugene Smith, slated to suffer the first execution in the country by suffocation from nitrogen gas, despite the fact that appeals in the case are…
As Moscow’s murderous war against Ukraine nears its third year, the Militant is running articles we wrote during and on the heels of the popular mass Maidan movement and Ukraine’s earlier history that led to the overthrow of the Moscow-backed…
Ukraine’s capitalist rulers, with the urging of their imperialist backers in Washington, are using wartime conditions and claims they’re advancing “de-Sovietization” to attack the union movement and weaken its ability to fight to protect workers’ interests. This includes moves to…
ISSAQUAH, Wash. — Supporters of Israel’s right to exist as a refuge for Jews here organized a counterprotest against the Issaquah Students League, a chapter of a group called the Revolutionary Student Union. It led a march and rally at…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — “We drove eight hours from Topeka, Kansas, to be here in support of BCTGM Local 390G union strikers,” Sam Burns, a union steward from Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 218 at Frito-Lay, told the…
LONDON — Kindertransport, the evacuation to the U.K. of 10,000 mainly Jewish children fleeing Nazi persecution in 1938-39, is touted by capitalist politicians and the media as an example of the British government coming to the aid of the Jewish…
The United Auto Workers announced Nov. 20 that its members at Ford, General Motors and Stellantis had voted up new contracts after strikes at the Big Three’s assembly plants, parts production sites and distribution centers. They cover over 146,000 autoworkers.…
