TERREBONNE, Quebec — “I’m fed up being run by threats,” striker Patrick Sirois told the Militant on the Sobeys distribution center picket line here April 9. The 190 United Food and Commercial Workers Local 501 members, on strike since Feb.…
MONTREAL — The Canadian government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is responding to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine by beefing up its military forces. The rulers demand working people “sacrifice” for the war as they step up attacks on wages, conditions…
Seven weeks into Moscow’s war against independent Ukraine, the determined resistance of that country’s armed forces and its population in general — as well as demoralization wracking the Russian troops and ineptness of their officer corps — brought Russian President…
McCALLA, Ala. — Over 1,500 United Mine Workers of America members, retirees, family members, other unionists, and community supporters rallied in Tannehill State Park here April 6 to back UMWA members on strike at Warrior Met Coal in nearby Brookwood.…
In an important ruling for the rights of workers behind bars, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled March 24 that states must accommodate death row inmates who want their pastor to pray aloud or touch them during their execution. The court…
The Socialist Workers Party in Minnesota is making plans for two weeks of special campaigning May 17-31 to take candidates Gabrielle Prosser for governor, Kevin Dwire for lieutenant governor and David Rosenfeld for U.S. Congress from one end of the…
Tens of thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka, from the mostly Tamil north to the largely Sinhalese south, marched April 9 demanding President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resign. The country of 22 million is facing its worst financial crisis since independence in…
As the invading army of Russian President Vladimir Putin commits atrocities against the Ukrainian people, how should working people who are seeking to defend Ukrainian independence approach Russian soldiers? Are they complicit with the Putin regime? Or is it possible…
“When we see union teachers, steelworkers and miners on strike it sends a message,” Dakota Dearry, 29, told Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of Texas, at an April 6 rally in McCalla, Alabama. The United Mine Workers…
For weeks in 2020 hundreds of thousands of working people joined an uprising to bring down the regime of President Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus after he stole the presidential election. With backing from Russian President Vladimir Putin, Lukashenko put down…
