Grenfell Tower fire survivors demand housing, fire safety

Vol. 82/No. 20 - May 21, 2018

LONDON — Marking 10 months since the Grenfell Tower fire, where 72 people were killed and hundreds left homeless, thousands of survivors and supporters marched here April 14. Every month survivors mobilize to demand government action. This was the biggest…




25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 19 - May 14, 2018

May 17, 1993 KAYENTA, Navajo Reservation, Arizona — United Mine Workers of America Local 1924 president Eugenie Bodonie told the Militant that the local’s membership voted unanimously to give eastern coal miners “full support in the BCOA [Bituminous Coal Operators…


Contract teachers at Canada’s York University strike over jobs

Vol. 82/No. 19 - May 14, 2018

TORONTO — For the second time in three years, some 3,000 York University teaching assistants, contract faculty and graduate assistants, members of Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 3903, went on strike March 5 for higher wages and job security.…


New Zealand nurses reject contract, protest work conditions

Vol. 82/No. 19 - May 14, 2018

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Hundreds of nurses and other health care workers joined protests outside hospitals and clinics across New Zealand over two weeks starting April 9. They are demanding increased staffing, higher wages and an end to onerous working…


Rap artist Meek Mill freed — case exposes US criminal ‘justice’ system

Vol. 82/No. 19 - May 14, 2018

PHILADELPHIA — Meek Mill, an internationally known African-American rap artist, was released on bail from the state penitentiary in Chester April 24. Upon hearing the rumor he would be freed, hundreds gathered outside the prison, including nearby neighbors, some holding…


Thousands march on May Day, demanding, ‘No deportations!’

Socialist Workers Party says: ‘Amnesty now!’
Vol. 82/No. 19 - May 14, 2018
Farmworkers, unionists and others joined May Day action in Yakima, Washington, May 1.

“We are not criminals, we are the workforce,” said the sign Maria Cuevas carried at this year’s May 1 International Workers Day march in Yakima, Washington. Underneath she pasted nearly two dozen photos of immigrant workers picking crops, driving tractors…


The ‘Militant,’ SWP books welcomed at protest actions

Vol. 82/No. 19 - May 14, 2018

DENVER — “I’m interested in a fighting labor movement. These books and your newspaper look like they point the way,” Eddie Asher told Socialist Workers Party member Jacquie Henderson at the thousands-strong rally of teachers, school workers, bus drivers and…


Korea talks show prospects for nuclear-free peninsula

Vol. 82/No. 19 - May 14, 2018

Kim Jong Un, the leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the North, met South Korean President Moon Jae-in April 27, the first summit between leaders of the two countries since 2007. The meeting — and more to…