MONTREAL — Beverly Bernardo, Communist League candidate in the March 13 provincial by-election in the Montreal electoral constituency of Saint-Henri-Sainte-Anne, brought her fighting working-class program to some 65 people at a candidates’ debate Feb. 28, sponsored by the Solidarity Saint-Henri community organization. “Many of the questions we…

Join us in expanding the reach of the Militant! The paper is launching an eight-week campaign to increase its readership, get out books by Socialist Workers Party and other revolutionary leaders and raise $165,000 for the paper from March 18-May 16. The Militant is unique for giving a voice to workers’ resistance against boss attacks and other effects…

QUEBEC CITY — School bus drivers from union locals B.R.-CSN (Confederation of National Trade Unions) and Tremblay & Paradis-CSN who are on strike met together at the Club Social Victoria here for a solidarity lunch Feb. 24. Their strike against two bus companies began eight days earlier. They’re demanding a wage increase and hiring. Two CSN school…

Angry parents, teachers and students protested across Iran March 7 in the face of widespread reports of poisoning by toxic gases of more than 1,000 students at over 125 primary and secondary girls schools in more than a dozen provinces over the last four months. No one has claimed responsibility and the government at first said little or that the reports…

TORONTO — Hundreds of nurses and their supporters took to the streets here March 2 to demand better wages, more staffing and improved conditions. Chanting “Enough is enough!” and “If we can’t get it, shut it down!” nurses protested outside the hotel where their union, the Ontario Nurses’ Association, was attempting to negotiate with the…

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Working people, family farmers and small-business people in this area continue to seek a way to defend their families’ health, homes and livelihoods in the wake of the Feb. 3 derailment of a Norfolk Southern train, subsequent fire and burn-off that spread toxic chemicals into the air, water and soil. And several rail unions…

Casting aside any pretense at impartiality, special grand jury foreman Emily Kohrs has been on a “media tour” divulging selective details of the Democratic Party-run search for indictments targeting Donald Trump’s alleged interference in Georgia’s 2020 elections. A gleeful liberal media is presenting her comments as confirmation of progress…

CHICAGO — Members and supporters of the Socialist Workers Party have stepped up campaigning for the party’s candidate for mayor, Ilona Gersh. They’re taking the campaign to fellow workers on their doorsteps, at factory gates and at protests called to defend working-class interests. Gersh and supporters campaigned in Woodlawn, a working-class neighborhood…

Steve Warshell, who was the Socialist Workers Party 2022 candidate for U.S. Senate from Florida, spoke before the Deerfield Progressive Forum Feb. 18 about the worsening crisis of the capitalist economy, of politics, of morality, of education, of family and of daily life. “None of these questions can be separated from the other,” he said. “To…

Thousands of working people, mostly older retirees, have been demonstrating in China since the government announced Feb. 1 the most significant health care reforms in over two decades. In reality, the “reforms” give the regime the ability to steal the hard-earned money out of the health care accounts of workers. At Renmin Square in the port city…

Socialist Workers Party members Ved Dookhun and Candace Wagner visited East Palestine, Ohio, Feb. 19. They got into a discussion with a cook, Michael McIntosh, at his house a few hundred yards from the area where a 150-car Norfolk Southern freight train derailed and burned a couple weeks earlier. “In the last decade rail companies have cut the workforce…

The FBI will “never conduct investigative activities or open an investigation based solely on First Amendment protected activity,” the spy agency claimed as it shut down plans by its office in Richmond, Virginia, to launch a new spy operation aimed at Catholics. It only did so after the plan became public and was hit with a firestorm of criticism…

Socialist Workers National Campaign Statement issued by Ellie García Feb. 21. Exploited farmers and ranchers face skyrocketing prices for fuel, seed, fertilizer, equipment and other inputs today. At the same time, capitalists reap vast profits from land speculation, driving up land prices and preventing small farmers from being economically viable…

CAMDEN, N.J. — “Now they’re playing hardball,” Ivan James, Teamsters Local 115 shop steward, told the Militant, describing how Waste Management of New Jersey bosses are conducting their negotiations with the union.  One hundred thirty sanitation workers at the yard here, on strike since Jan. 31, voted down the latest contract proposal 101-2…

March 2, 1998 William Jefferson Clinton, in his second inaugural speech proclaimed the United States “the world’s indispensable nation.” The message is that Washington — acting unilaterally and relying more and more on military force — will target for brutal punishment “those people” who don’t “follow the rules” it sets. The U.S…

For more than a century following the American Revolution, the Constitution’s provision that presidents regularly “give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union,” was carried out by submitting written reports. Over the past 100 years, the two contending capitalist parties have turned that responsibility into a partisan spectacle where…

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Talking with workers, farmers and small-business people in this area, members of the Socialist Workers Party found many have serious questions about the long-term effects of the derailment of 50 cars on a Norfolk Southern train Feb. 3. This included 20 cars containing hazardous material, five of them with liquid vinyl chloride…

Russian President Vladimir Putin is launching a large-scale new assault in the east of Ukraine on the one-year anniversary of his regime’s invasion. Despite suffering multiple battlefield defeats at the hands of Ukraine’s military and its many working-class volunteer fighters, Putin still aims to crush their independence with even more death and…

MONTREAL — Some 40 outside and office workers on strike at Montreal’s Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery held a joint action at the office of the Catholic Archbishop of Montreal here Jan. 26. The Notre Dame Parish runs the cemetery. Patrick Chartrand, a groundskeeper and president of the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery Workers’ Union — the outside…

WASHINGTON — Several thousand people rallied here Feb. 11, part of an international day of action to protest the ongoing repression by the reactionary bourgeois-clerical regime in Iran. Participants came from across the East Coast and from as far away as Houston. There were similar protests in Los Angeles, Chicago and Paris.  Among the signs were…

Prison officials at Florida’s privately run Blackwater River Correctional Facility banned an issue of the Militant  on Feb. 1. Their reason? According to the rejection notice sent to the paper, they allege that two front-page articles in issue no. 4 — one on a victorious strike by the New York State Nurses Association and the other on the “Women…