When cops in Portland, Oregon, decided they wanted to nail Tyronne Allen for bank robbery, they used Photoshop on his mug shot to wipe out every one of the many tattoos covering his face to make his image “fit” that…
WELLINGTON, New Zealand —Demanding “Hands Off Our Tamariki [children],” upwards of 400 people rallied at Parliament here July 30 to condemn the seizure of Maori children from their mothers by the children’s ministry, Oranga Tamariki. Protests took place in a…
VALPARAISO, Ind. — “I am glad we went on strike. It brought us closer together. We learned solidarity,” Kelley Wilson, an inspector at the Regal Beloit plant, told the Militant Sept. 4, the day after members of International Association of…
MONTREAL — About 30 petrochemical workers employed by Royal Vopak Co. have been on strike since July 2 here and in Quebec City. They are members of Unifor Local 175C. Unifor is the biggest private-sector union in Canada. The workers…
September 26, 1994 Working people the world over have a responsibility to demand Washington halt all plans for a military invasion of Haiti. Clinton’s order to put 20,000 U.S. troops into battle to supposedly defend democracy is sheer hypocrisy. Far…
LOS ANGELES — Bob Redrup spent “seven decades building the Socialist Workers Party. His was a life lived on the right side of history,” Norton Sandler, a member of the SWP National Committee, told 50 people at a meeting to…
In a victory for the Gibson family and working people, Lorraine County, Ohio, Judge John Miraldi Sept. 9 denied motions by Oberlin College asking him to either grant them a new trial or overturn the jury verdict finding the college…
LONDON — It’s been more than three years since millions of working people helped form the majority that voted for the U.K. to get out of the European Union. But an alliance of capitalist parties is stepping up efforts to…
“For millions of working people in this country ‘economic recovery’ is not how they would describe their conditions of life over the past 10 years,” Paul Mailhot, a member of the Socialist Workers Party National Committee, told the opening celebration…
As the campaign against suppression of the Militant by Florida prison wardens gathers momentum, the Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee overturned the latest impoundments of two more issues of the socialist newsweekly Aug. 28. And they did so before…
