UNION CITY, N.J. — “The 2020 presidential election campaign has been launched by the Republicans and Democrats. Over the next 16 months the Socialist Workers Party candidates and their supporters will present the need to break with the capitalist two-party…
July 11, 1994 BROOKLYN, New York — After less than two days on strike, 2,341 conductors, car repair workers, and track workers scored a victory in their contract fight with the Long Island Rail Road. The four striking locals of…
The 2020 U.S. elections — with 16 months to go — are front-page news, as incumbent Donald Trump and some two dozen Democratic wannabes pound away at each other. All these Democratic and Republican politicians, whether self-proclaimed socialists, liberals or…
Socialist Workers Party candidates and their supporters across the country are stepping up efforts to introduce the party, its working-class program and activities to workers and youth coming out of the party-sponsored 2019 International Active Workers Conference held June 13-15.…
SYDNEY — Over 1,000 supporters of women’s right to choose abortion marched through the central city here June 9 amid a sea of homemade signs. They chanted, “my body, my choice” and “our bodies, our rights.” The action was initiated…
Oberlin College President Carmen Twillie Ambar and other officials have launched a media blitz to falsely portray the June 7 verdict by a Lorain County jury as a dangerous attack on free speech. The jury found the college guilty of…
TEHRAN, Iran — The 32nd Tehran International Book Fair took place at the large Mosalla mosque complex here April 24-May 4. Hundreds of thousands from around the country attended amid rising U.S. imperialist military threats, economic sanctions and a declining…
The Florida prison system’s Literature Review Committee upheld the ban on four more issues of the Militant June 20, despite the fact it hadn’t yet received the paper’s appeal of the impoundments. They had previously agreed to extend the deadline…
UNITED NATIONS — This year’s U.N. decolonization hearings on the status of Puerto Rico June 24 reflected the growing anger at Washington and the colonial government among millions of Puerto Ricans on the island and in the U.S. over the…
SALINAS, Calif. — Some 200 workers walked off the job here June 11 at Fresh Express, a large fruit and vegetable processing plant, after the company abruptly cancelled contract negotiations with Local 5 of the United Food and Commercial Workers…
