NEW YORK — Although Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega still drapes himself in the symbols of the 1979 Sandinista Revolution, the government he heads is a capitalist government, Socialist Workers Party leader Róger Calero told participants at the Militant Labor Forum…
August 23, 1993 PERCY, Illinois — On July 27 another 1,000 miners joined the United Mine Workers of America strike for a contract. This was the eighth expansion of the national coal strike, which began May 10. There are now…
“The company thought they could make us come crawling back on our knees. That will never happen,” Patrick Rochette, a member of United Steelworkers Local 9700, told Communist League candidate Beverly Bernardo and campaign supporters on the picket line at…
LONDON — “Jewish Trump fanatics” are responsible for a raft of made-up stories about Labour Party anti-Semitism, national executive member Peter Willsman charged at the committee’s meeting July 17. This explosion of Jew-hatred, recorded and publicly released, is part of…
NEW YORK — Seventy-five people attended a press conference and protest at City Hall here Aug. 1 held by Hawa Bah, whose 28-year-old son Mohamed was killed by New York cops in 2012. Bah demanded the city drop its attempts…
Washington and Pyongyang continue to take steps to implement the agreement for the “denuclearization” of the Korean Peninsula reached at the June 12 summit in Singapore between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The agreement is…
A new round of protests and strikes are unfolding across Iran, following the working-class-led protests that took place in late December and early January. They’re fueled above all by the impact on the working class of the wars conducted by…
The fight continues against the move by prison authorities at the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ medium security facility in Greenville, Illinois, to ban the Militant. Authorities there have prevented a subscriber from getting the paper since the June 11 issue.…
Claiming Beijing has been “cheating,” Washington imposed a series of tariffs on Chinese goods, seeking to use its superior clout to gain concessions to aid U.S. bosses in trade between the two countries. The Chinese rulers, so far, have responded…
“I know all about Santos Rodriguez! I grew up in southwest Dallas,” Victoria Dominguez told Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from Texas, when she knocked on her door July 30. “You need to meet my mother.…
