MONTREAL — To the sound of loud cheers and music, Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) strikers from the Hilton hotel in Quebec City joined DoubleTree hotel pickets here Oct. 5. The joint action by the workers was called in…
Two days after U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman ordered an injunction blocking a Texas law that severely restricts a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a request by the Texas…
The first week of the international combined drive to expand the readership of the Militant and communist literature and raise funds for the Socialist Workers Party shows the growing interest in discussing how workers can win support for union struggles…
October 28, 1996 WASHINGTON, D.C. — “No human being is illegal!” appeared on countless hand-lettered signs among the thousands of demonstrators who converged October 12 for the first national demonstration for the rights of immigrants. Mexican, Chicano, Puerto Rican, and…
BY MARTÍN KOPPEL, MARY-ALICE WATERS, AND RÓGER CALERO NEW YORK — Carlos Fernández de Cossío, head of the Cuban foreign ministry’s department for U.S. affairs, was in New York at the end of September for the opening session of the…
Statement by Róger Calero, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City mayor, Oct. 6. Join me in getting out the word about, and building solidarity with, Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union members on strike at Kellogg’s…
Over 1,400 members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union struck four Kellogg Company cereal plants Oct. 5. They are determined to fight bosses’ demands for a two-tier contract that would deepen divisions among workers, as well…
Below is an excerpt from a March 26, 1962, speech by Fidel Castro, the central leader of the Cuban Revolution. In it Castro discusses how Cuba’s workers and peasants were won through the series of revolutionary mobilizations and struggles to…
Indian farmers pledged to step up monthslong protests against laws threatening their livelihoods in response to the killing of eight people during clashes between protesters and officials in the Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh state Oct. 3. Above, protest…
MONTREAL — Driven by the thirst for profits, Canadian Pacific Railway bosses bear major responsibility for the July 2013 Lac-Megantic oil-train derailment and explosion that killed 47 people. This is the charge at the heart of a class-action lawsuit whose…
