November 24, 1997 HAVANA — “In the present international conditions, we reaffirm that socialism is a necessity,” said Cuban leader José Ramón Balaguer to the Oct. 21-23 international workshop here on “Socialism as the 21st Century Approaches.” “The contradiction between…
In the final days of the 2022 campaign, Socialist Workers Party candidates are advancing a fighting working-class program, backing rail workers’ battle for livable working conditions and explaining why opposing government assaults on constitutional freedoms is central for working people.…
“Do not come to the streets. Today is the last day of riots,” Hossein Salami, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran, said Oct. 29, threatening protesters across the country that continuing their actions “will bring no happy…
For over eight months, Ukrainian working people have pushed back the assault by the KGB-police-state regime of Vladimir Putin on their country’s independence. Moscow is retaliating with a brutal bombardment of Ukrainian cities and power infrastructure. After battlefield defeats, Putin’s…
LINCOLN, Neb. — “Railroad union members continue to organize protests to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with the bosses in their fight to get a contract that the membership will approve,” Jakob Forsgren, chair of local Lodge 1320 of the Brotherhood of…
Days before Nov. 8 elections, the Socialist Workers Party and its candidates are making a final push to reach working people with the party’s program and activities. Gabrielle Prosser, SWP candidate for governor of Minnesota, spoke at a candidates’ forum…
NEW YORK — “The FBI will not intimidate us!” Milagros Rivera, president of the Cuba Solidarity Committee in Puerto Rico, told an audience of 120 people here Oct. 28. “We will continue to fight for the freedom of our homeland,”…
RAYMOND, Wash. — Over 1,100 members of International Association of Machinists District W24 struck Weyerhaeuser locations across Oregon and Washington six weeks ago in a fight against increased health care costs and for higher pay. Weyerhaeuser is one of the…
OAKLAND, Calif.—Nurses working at Sutter’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center organized by the California Nurses Association conducted a weeklong strike here Oct. 24-28 demanding a substantial wage increase and better working conditions. Pickets told the Militant they wanted parity with…
