Moscow steps up attacks on Ukraine after IS terror attack

Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024

Four terrorist attackers, acting for an Islamic State group offshoot, sprayed gunfire on concertgoers and lit a massive blaze that brought down the roof in a Moscow entertainment complex hosting a rock concert March 22. In the assault, the deadliest…


Conditions facing women unionists in Ukraine today

Vol. 88/No. 12 - March 25, 2024

“The expansionist war of the Russian regime has ruined the lives of millions of Ukrainians, deprived them of their homes and forced them to seek safety and shelter in other regions of Ukraine and beyond its borders,” the Confederation of…


Forum in New Jersey takes up Ukraine fight for sovereignty

Vol. 88/No. 11 - March 18, 2024
Tens of thousands at Alexei Navalny’s March 1 funeral in Moscow march to cemetery, chant “No to war!” and “Russia will be free!” It was the largest protest against the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin since he launched his invasion of Ukraine two years ago

UNION CITY, N.J. — “Look at the pictures of tens of thousands of people chanting slogans at the funeral for Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny,” John Studer, editor of the Militant, told a Militant Labor Forum here March 2. That’s…


Worldwide protests back Ukraine battle to defend its independence

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024
Thousands rally in Prague, Czech Republic, Feb. 24 supporting Ukraine after two years of Moscow’s invasion. Placard, center right, says in Ukrainian: “We will not forget our heroes, we will not forgive our enemies.” Similar protests took place all around the world.

Many tens of thousands of working people in Ukraine and supporters around the world of their struggle for independence took to the streets Feb. 24 to mark two important anniversaries. The first was two years since the murderous invasion of…


Ukraine unions call for solidarity against Moscow invasion

Vol. 88/No. 10 - March 11, 2024
Workers from the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine deliver wood, other supplies to soldiers on the frontline in war to defeat Moscow’s invasion, defend Ukraine independence.

“The priority now is defending Ukraine,” Mykhailo Volynets, chairperson of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU) and of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine, told the Militant in a phone interview Feb. 14. The vast…


Navalny killed in Russian prison, opposition grows to Ukraine war

Vol. 88/No. 9 - March 4, 2024
Memorial at Russian Embassy in Berlin, Feb. 18. Banner by Pussy Riot members denounces Kremlin murderers. Two days earlier, Russian authorities announced that Alexei Navalny, prominent critic of Putin regime, war in Ukraine, died in Russian gulag prison. Inset, Marina Ovsyannikova, who was fired for protesting March 2022 on live Russian TV against Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, holds sign at Berlin gathering quoting Navalny, “Don’t give up.”

The Russian government informed Alexei Navalny’s family Feb. 16 that he had died in prison. Navalny, a well-known critic of the government in Moscow, had been incarcerated in one of Russia’s harsh prison colonies in the Arctic Circle. The announcement…


Get Moscow out of all of Ukraine now!

Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024

Two years ago Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a war against Ukraine to crush its independence and subjugate its people. Eight years earlier workers across Ukraine rose up in massive protests for political rights that ousted the pro-Moscow regime of…


Protest against Jew-hatred! No to Putin’s war in Ukraine!

Support Ukraine battle for its independence
Vol. 88/No. 8 - February 26, 2024
People sign for anti-war presidential candidate Boris Nadezhdin in Moscow Jan. 23. Putin, alarmed as 200,000 people were seen lining up to sign petitions, barred him from ballot.

Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine continues to devastate the lives of working people there, to fuel anti-war opposition to the regime of President Vladimir Putin in Russia, and to roil world politics as it enters its third year. Workers in Ukraine…


Watershed in world politics
New wars and social crises are inevitable

How Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, Hamas’ Oct. 7 slaughter of Jews upended the capitalist ‘world order’
Vol. 88/No. 7 - February 19, 2024
Houthi helicopter hijacking cargo ship Galaxy Leader in Red Sea Nov. 19. After Houthi attacks on ships in January, U.S. and U.K. forces mounted airstrikes against their bases in Yemen.

Working people today face a world of deepening capitalist disorder and escalating competition over profits, markets and political influence, as well as a deepening war drive gripping all the major rival world powers. Two recent watershed developments — Moscow’s 2022…


Ukraine unions call for worldwide solidarity actions

Vol. 88/No. 6 - February 12, 2024

The Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU) has issued an appeal for solidarity actions with Ukraine’s fight against Moscow’s invasion on its second anniversary. The appeal, signed by Mykhailo Volynets, chairperson of the KVPU and of the Independent…