Text version of the Militant, a socialist newspaper
Fuel price protests spread in Europe Farmers, truckers, fishermen mobilize from Spain to Ireland   Strikers shut down Los Angeles bus system   Rally calls for right to return to Palestine   Locked-out Steelworkers at Kaiser win contract   'Militant' gets good response at march for Palestinian rights   Steps needed to collect contributions for fund   Overall sales chart A socialist newsweekly published in the interests of working people Vol. 64/No. 37October 2, 2000   Workers respond to racist assault against immigrants on Long Island More than 100 rallied in Long Island community of Farmingville September 19 to condemn murderous assault on two immigrant workers two days earlier. The area has been scene of rightist mobilizations against immigrants, targeting workers who gather on street corners for day labor work, and countermobilizations by immigrant workers and their defenders. The two workers told a press conference they were taken to a deserted warehouse by two white men claiming to be contractors, and assaulted with crowbar, shovel, and knife. See editorial.       Front page (for this issue) | Home | Text-version home