Carrying banners reading “Legal abortion now” and “Our right to decide” in a sea of green shirts and bandanas, thousands of women and their supporters demonstrated for women’s right to decide whether to have an abortion Sept. 28 in Ecuador,…
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…
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…
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…
DALLAS — Members of United Steelworkers Local 13-243 have maintained their picket lines at the ExxonMobil Refinery and Lubricant Blending and Packaging Plant in Beaumont, Texas, since being locked out over five months ago. After the 650 union members refused…
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…
BARDSTOWN, Ky. — Some 420 United Food and Commercial Workers Local 23D members are going into a fourth week of a strike against Heaven Hill Brands distillery bosses. Kentucky is the heart of the U.S. bourbon industry, and Heaven Hill…
Tens of thousands marched for women’s right to choose abortion Oct. 2 in some 660 demonstrations in cities and towns, large and small, across the U.S. and some internationally. The rallies were called by Women’s March, and coordinated with more…
The drive to reach out broadly with the Militant and books by Socialist Workers Party leaders and other revolutionaries and to raise money to finance the work of the party got off to a great start over the opening weekend…
