Chinese workers seethe over Shanghai COVID lockdown

Vol. 86/No. 19 - May 16, 2022
Working people protested eviction from their homes in Shanghai, mid-April, as apartment block was turned into COVID isolation facility. They were removed by cops in protective suits.

Weeks of rising anger toward government officials in response to severe COVID restrictions and accompanying food shortages spurred protests in Shanghai at the end of April.  Dozens of residents in Jinze, a Shanghai suburb, marched through the streets demanding food.…


Cuban people join May Day march to defend their socialist revolution

Vol. 86/No. 19 - May 16, 2022
Contingent of health care workers along with students from international medical school at May Day march in Havana. Center banner says, “Long live international solidarity.”

HAVANA — More than 600,000 working people marched here May 1, International Workers Day, and hundreds of thousands more paraded through other cities and towns, big and small, across Cuba. It was a massive, celebratory expression by Cuba’s working people…




Protests in Grand Rapids: ‘Arrest cop who killed Patrick Lyoya!’

Vol. 86/No. 19 - May 16, 2022

Demonstrations protesting the killing of Patrick Lyoya in Grand Rapids, Michigan, have been taking place every evening at 6 p.m., Lakyra Price-Sanders told the Militant  in a phone interview April 29. “We’re continuing to do what we can to bring…



Wide interest in ‘Militant,’ SWP at May Day protests

Vol. 86/No. 19 - May 16, 2022
At the Philadelphia May Day event, Osborne Hart, right, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania, talks to construction worker Adrian Andrade. “We work really hard for very little pay,” Andrade said as he subscribed to the Militant.

The April 30-May 8 target week to boost the drive to expand the readership of the Militant, get out books by revolutionary working-class leaders and win contributions to the Militant Fighting Fund has gotten off to a good start. Socialist…