Update: The Militant was informed May 27 that the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee reversed the ban on all five issues. All the inmate subscribers will now be getting their papers. As of May 26 the Militant has…
With hiring picking up, but still slowly, working people confront both large-scale joblessness, pressure on wages and working conditions, and the steepest price hikes in over a decade. The class-struggle road to changing these conditions starts from expanding solidarity with…
BROOKWOOD, Ala. — “We need national exposure for our strike,” Harold Young, a United Mine Workers of America union member on strike at Warrior Met Coal’s No. 4 mine, told the Militant on the picket line here May 16. Spreading…
Rocket attacks and shelling between Hamas and the Israeli government continued in mid-May, resulting in mounting civilian deaths, injuries, destruction of neighborhoods and displacement of families. Since officials of Gaza’s Islamist regime initiated the armed conflict May 10, Hamas and…
LOS ANGELES — The Socialist Workers Party in California announced May 15 that it will run Dennis Richter, a Walmart worker and party leader, for governor in a special election to decide who might replace Democratic Party governor Gavin Newsom…
FEDERAL WAY, Wash. — Workers at the Walmart store where I work have organized to win support for locked-out oil refinery workers half way across the country. Members of Teamsters Local 120 at the Marathon Petroleum refinery in St. Paul…
The SWP “stimulus” appeal now totals $163,760 from 137 contributors over the last three months! A tremendous accomplishment! The U.S. government reports the overwhelming majority of $1,400 payments have been sent out. We’ll plan a roundup of the effort two…
Global Health Partners and the U.S.-Canada Saving Lives Campaign are raising funds to supply millions of syringes to Cuba over the next several months to help health workers there vaccinate the entire Cuban population against COVID-19. The Cubans are also…
Despite bloody government repression, protests continued May 17 in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city, above, demanding the military junta that seized power in the country Feb. 1 stand down. Police and soldiers had broken up a protest march in Mandalay’s Pyigyidagun…
