SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Three dozen people rallied in a Martin Luther King Day protest Jan. 17 across the street from the state Capitol building here demanding that Carlos Harris and other unjustly incarcerated prisoners be released. “My cousin Carlos has…
In a highly publicized antisemitic attack, Malik Faisal Akram took four hostages at gunpoint during a livestream service at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, Jan. 15. He held the hostages, including Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, for 11 hours,…
Erin Turner recently started working 12-hour shifts in Iowa to cover the $1,520 a month she spends on child care for her two young children, more then twice her rent. “We’re already living within our means. We don’t have anywhere…
LOS ANGELES — Socialist Workers Party members in California met in a statewide convention here Jan. 23 and voted to run Eleanor García, a retired aerospace worker and party leader with long experience in working-class struggles, for U.S. Senate and…
Halfway through the Jan. 1 to Feb. 15 international Militant renewal drive, more than 200 readers have renewed their subscriptions. Members of the Socialist Workers Party in the U.S. and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United…
As Washington presses to defend its interests in eastern Europe, claiming to act in defense of Ukrainian sovereignty, deeper divisions have become clear among the rival capitalist rulers in NATO. The head of Germany’s navy, Kay-Achim Schonbach, was forced to…
Talks between the U.S. and Russian governments over Moscow’s continuing troop buildup near its border with Ukraine ended without agreement Jan. 21. Washington opposes Moscow’s threats to Ukraine, claiming to stand against an assault on Ukrainian sovereignty. In fact, the…
HOPKINS PARK, Ill. — “Black farmers in rural Pembroke Township protest Nicor plan to build gas pipeline through their community,” read a headline in the Dec. 7 Chicago Tribune. It reported on a rally in downtown Chicago opposing the installation…
DENVER — After a solid and lively 10-day strike against King Soopers grocery-store bosses by 8,400 United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 members from Boulder to Parker, Colorado, and the greater metro area here, a majority voted in big…
FORT WORTH, Texas — For nine months now 650 members of United Steelworkers Local 13-243 have fought oil giant ExxonMobil bosses’ attempts to break their union. The company marched the workers out of the giant refinery and oil blending facility…
