“You’re in good hands at Allstate,” the familiar TV commercial says. But the bosses of this large insurance company announced this week they are eliminating 3,800 workers. Allstate is one of a number of big capitalist outfits slashing its workforce…
The international eight-week drive to win 1,200 new readers to the Militant and sell the same number of books by Socialist Workers Party leaders and other revolutionaries is off to a strong start. The drive is intertwined with expanding the…
October 23, 1995 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — “Cubans came to our region as doctors, teachers, soldiers, agricultural experts, but never as colonizers,” said South African president Nelson Mandela at a Cuba-Southern Africa solidarity conference here. “They have shared the same…
Bloody clashes have broken out in the Caucasus as the regimes in Azerbaijan and Armenia are battling over control of the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Their decadeslong dispute over the area is stoked by the rulers of Russia and Turkey, who…
SAN FRANCISCO — Over 70 members of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 39 are on strike against Macy’s department stores throughout Northern California and in Reno, Nevada. All the strikers are concentrating their picket lines at the Union…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Thirteen steel fabrication workers, who voted in the Teamsters union at DSI Tunneling here last November, have been on strike for their first contract since Aug. 4. They are hanging tough on the picket line and continue…
“Money, money, money — that’s Galen Weston. As long as he can take care of himself and his family that’s all he cares about,” a striking Dominion grocery store worker on the picket line in Newfoundland says in a TV…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — As National Guard tanks rolled through downtown streets here Sept. 23, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced the decisions of the grand jury he convened on whether, and what, charges should be issued in the March 13…
