The nine-week international drive to sell 1,400 subscriptions to the Militant, 1,400 books on working-class politics and raise $145,000 for the Militant Fighting Fund has begun. The drive will advance the campaigns of the 20 Socialist Workers Party candidates for state…
DUBLIN, Va. — “Beep, beep. Volvo’s cheap!” chanted striking autoworkers picketing Volvo Truck North America’s New River Valley assembly plant here April 27. Some 2,900 members of United Auto Workers Local 2069 voted by 96.8% to go on strike April…
SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — Two hundred people joined a rally here April 18 to commemorate the life of Steven Taylor one year after he was killed by San Leandro police. He was shot inside the Walmart store on Hesperian Boulevard…
WASHINGTON — The current push for statehood for the District of Columbia, purportedly in the name of increasing its residents’ representation and fighting racism, is a fraud. It is aimed at gaining seats in the Senate for one of the…
WHITEHAVEN, England — “People from outside the area say Sellafield is unsafe and coal is bad for the environment, but it’s an issue of jobs,” Patrick Stamper, a former scaffolder at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site, told Peter Clifford, the…
CHICAGO — “Cuba and the Coming American Revolution: The 60th Anniversary of Two Historic Victories of the Cuban Revolution and Their Significance for Building a Revolutionary Party in the United States — Then and Now” was the featured talk at…
May 13, 1996 HAVANA — More than one million workers, students, members of Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces, and others marched here on May Day. Actions took place in every provincial capital and other cities. Pedro Ross, general secretary of the…
