Lift US sanctions on NKorea! For a nuclear-free peninsula!

Vol. 83/No. 39 - October 28, 2019

Washington should immediately and unconditionally “lift all sanctions against the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea” and “live up to the White House pledge last year to halt joint war games with Seoul,” wrote Steve Clark, Oct. 10, for the Socialist…




‘Militant’ and books drive builds support for labor battles

Vol. 83/No. 39 - October 28, 2019

The drive to expand readership of the Militant and of books by Socialist Workers Party leaders and other working-class revolutionary leaders got off to a good start during its first week. The drive focuses on helping workers, farmers and other…


‘Standing up, fighting back helps unite working people’

Vol. 83/No. 39 - October 28, 2019
From left, Pierre-Luc Filion, Communist League candidate in Montreal; Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party 2016 candidate for president; and Malcolm Jarrett, SWP candidate for Pittsburgh City Council, visit United Steelworkers on strike at Galvano plant in Quebec Oct. 10.

MONTREAL, Quebec — “The heart of a union is workers’ activity in defense of our rights,” Alyson Kennedy, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president in 2016, told striking members of United Steelworkers Local 9414 Oct. 10, when she visited…


Ankara hands off Kurds in Syria! US out of Mideast!

Vol. 83/No. 39 - October 28, 2019

  The capitalist rulers in Turkey and Islamist Syrian forces they arm and control launched airstrikes, artillery bombardments and a ground invasion of northeastern Syria Oct. 9, targeting the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces there. Their goal is to weaken the…


PG&E cuts power to 700,000 homes in Northern California

Vol. 83/No. 39 - October 28, 2019
Burned, mangled power lines in Santa Rosa, California, Oct. 2017. PG&E faces millions of dollars in damages over responsibility for fire for poor maintenance, failure to clear vegetation.

OAKLAND, Calif. — “It’s outrageous what PG&E is doing,” Crystal Perdiguerra, a resident of East Oakland whose husband uses a home dialysis machine, told the Militant. Perdiguerra, like many others, is angry at the disdain shown by Pacific Gas &…


Georgia cop faces prison in shooting of Anthony Hill

Vol. 83/No. 39 - October 28, 2019

DECATUR, Ga. — After six days of deliberation, jurors Oct. 14 found former DeKalb County cop Robert Olsen guilty of aggravated assault and other lesser charges in the 2015 killing of Anthony Hill. The 27-year-old African American veteran of the…


Unity and solidarity are crucial to working-class struggles

Vol. 83/No. 39 - October 28, 2019

Labor struggles are picking up as workers grow more confident they can organize to stand up to the bosses’ attacks. Some 3,600 workers at Mack Truck went on strike this week, as well as 2,000 Asarco copper miners in Arizona…