Month: December 2021
25, 50 and 75 Years Ago
Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022January 6, 1997 For an entire month, daily protests against the Stalinist regime of Slobodan Milosevic have filled the streets of Yugoslavia. The number of demonstrators in the capital of Serbia has hovered around 100,000. On December 16 up to…
Solidarity crucial to outcome of labor fights
Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022Workers are showing growing confidence today in using our unions to fight against the attacks of the bosses and their government. This is an advance for all working people, including workers yet to be organized, farmers and all those oppressed…
US rulers’ drive to isolate Cuba dealt blow by Colombia award
Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022The U.S. rulers’ drive to isolate Cuba was dealt a setback Dec. 8 when the Congress of Colombia gave an award to the Cuban government for facilitating talks that led to a peace agreement between the Colombian government and the…
Ukraine miners expand protests, demand back pay
Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022![Miners protest in Kyiv, Ukraine, Dec. 16, after not receiving millions in back pay or funding for health and safety measures. Signs read “Our families” and “our children also want to eat.”](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Ukraine_miners_8601-300x222.jpg)
Miners at a number of state-owned Ukrainian mines brought their protests over wage arrears to the streets of Kyiv, the capital, Dec. 16. The action was followed by underground sit-ins and aboveground protests at the Myrnograd mine in Donetsk and…
Student workers strike for first contract at Columbia University
Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022NEW YORK — Some 3,000 graduate and undergraduate student workers at Columbia University, members of United Auto Workers Local 2110, have been on strike here since Nov. 3, fighting for their first contract. The workers won a ruling from the…
Calif. sanitation workers fight over safety, seniority, respect
Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022LOS ANGELES — More than 250 Republic Services sanitation workers in the San Diego area, members of Teamsters Local 542, went on strike Dec. 18. “Safety issue here is a big concern. We’re driving trucks that shouldn’t be on the…
Working-class fight for women’s emancipation, support for families
Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022![Picket in St. Paul Park, Minnesota, Jan. 30, 2021, supporting Teamster unionists locked out by Marathon Petroleum. Women are increasingly in front lines together with men in labor battles, showing struggle for women’s emancipation advances fighting power of working class.](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Teamster-support_8601-300x217.jpg)
NEW YORK — Paul Mailhot, a member of the Socialist Workers Party National Committee, spoke here Dec. 11 on the fight for women’s emancipation and the class-struggle road for workers to fight for political power — in the wake of…
‘Workers in the US must go into politics on their own account’
Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022![July 12, 1948, Militant covers SWP convention, including James P. Cannon’s speech on “the two Americas,” the imperialist exploiters vs. workers and farmers, broadcast live to millions.](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Dobbs-Carlson_8601-300x208.jpg)
Notebook of an Agitator: From the Wobblies to the Fight against the Korean War and McCarthyism by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. Cannon was a founding leader of the communist movement in…
Found not guilty by jury, Rittenhouse still faces attacks on his political rights
Vol. 85/No. 48 - December 27, 2021In a closely followed and widely publicized trial, the facts marshaled there showed that 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse was neither a white supremacist nor guilty of any crime when he defended himself from a mob in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The jury voted…