January 23, 1995 DES MOINES, Iowa — Thousands of rubber workers on strike against Bridgestone/Firestone here and in Decatur, Illinois; Noblesville, Indiana; and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, voted overwhelmingly to continue their strike against the tire giant. Several days earlier the…
The Dec. 22 letter below was received from a worker behind bars in the United States. It refers to his experiences getting to know Gerardo Hernández, one of the Cuban Five, when they were incarcerated in the same prison. The…
The following corrected statement was issued Jan. 10 by Naomi Craine, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from Illinois. The Socialist Workers Party condemns Washington’s military action killing Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani; Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, a leader of the…
Tens of thousands have joined demonstrations across the U.S. and around the world against Washington’s Jan. 2 killing of Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Quds Force, demanding the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. troops and weaponry…
The Socialist Workers Party calls for the immediate, unconditional and total withdrawal of all U.S. troops from the Middle East,” Ned Measel, a member of the party in Louisville, Kentucky, told a rally of 50 people there Jan. 4. “The…
“People need to know what we are fighting for,” Alex Terrazas, a worker at the Mission Mine and president of United Steelworkers Local 937 told this Militant worker-correspondent Jan. 7. “Asarco is a multibillion dollar corporation. They’re taking from our…
NEW YORK — Some 25,000 people marched here against anti-Semitism Jan. 5. The large turnout on short notice reflects the growing interest in finding ways to stand up to anti-Semitism. Members and supporters of the Socialist Workers Party joined the…
Claiming high crimes and misdemeanors were committed, the Democratic Party leadership in the House shepherded their caucus to adopt articles of impeachment in a completely partisan vote Dec. 18, seeking to oust sitting President Donald Trump less than a year…
“Officials here at the Pendleton Correctional Facility have banned the last 4 issues of your paper, issues nos. 43, 44, 45 and 46,” inmate subscriber Kevin “Rashid” Johnson wrote the Militant Dec. 27. The Indiana Department of Correction, in violation…
LOS ANGELES — The day a new California labor law was to go into effect a federal judge blocked it for more than 70,000 independent truckers. Assembly Bill 5 was designed by liberal politicians to “solve” the problem many workers…
