HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — “One hundred and thirty-four days! That’s how long we’ve been at this,” striker Jason Hogsett told this Militant worker-correspondent at the main gate picket in front of Special Metals Feb. 11. “There’s no point in giving in…
“Angels on Horseback: Midwives in the Mountains,” a KET-TV documentary on PBS, brings to light a pioneering initiative to provide health care in rural Appalachia. Begun in 1925, the Frontier Nursing Service reduced infant mortality and maternal deaths in eastern…
Thousands of teachers, joined by contingents of firefighters, fellow unionists and others, marched to the governor’s mansion in the U.S. colony of Puerto Rico Feb. 9 to demand higher wages and oppose cuts in pensions. Protesters also denounced a U.S.-imposed…
ATHENS, Greece — Publishing house Diethnes Vima organized a discussion on “Che Guevara’s contributions to socialism in Cuba and proletarian internationalism worldwide” as a celebration of the anniversary of the Cuban Revolution here Jan. 22. Two books were presented —…
March 3, 1997 The first American Airlines pilots’ strike since 1959 lasted only four minutes before President William Clinton intervened to stop the strike under the Railway Labor Act. The 9,300 members of the Allied Pilots Association had struck February…
The Militant’s successful subscription renewal campaign expanded the paper’s long-term readership and drew a new levy of readers to join in common work with members of the Socialist Workers Party. Next up is a spring circulation drive in coming weeks…
The Spanish edition of Making History: Interviews With Four Generals of Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces by José Ramón Fernández, Enrique Carreras, Harry Villegas and Néstor López Cuba is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Division Gen. Carreras…
MINNEAPOLIS — Over 1,000 teachers and supporters marched and rallied here Feb. 12 in subzero temperatures. The action took place leading up to a strike vote by teachers and support staff in both Minneapolis and St. Paul. The unions in…
Workers at the General Motors pickup-truck plant in Guanajuato, Mexico, voted overwhelmingly for a new independent union in early February, sending a message to the U.S. auto-giant bosses they will no longer accept low wages and abusive working conditions. With…
For anyone wanting to learn firsthand about the Cuban Revolution, an excellent opportunity is the 15th International May Day Voluntary Work Brigade to Cuba this spring, set for April 24 to May 8. The National Network on Cuba organizes the…
