On Dec. 13 outgoing Oregon Gov. Kate Brown commuted the death sentences of all 17 prisoners sentenced to be executed in the state. “I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should…
Truck drivers in Jordan, above, ended a 17-day strike Dec. 19, after six members of parliament promised that their demands for lower fuel prices and cancellation of a special tax on fuel derivatives would be met. But some workers said…
January 12, 1998 The recent actions by immigration authorities seizing hundreds of workers at factories in Georgia for deportations deserve condemnation. These arrests are aimed at dividing working people and intimidating undocumented workers who try to resist the bosses’ attacks…
OAKLAND, Calif. — Registered nurses hit the picket lines Christmas Eve in front of Sutter Health hospitals here and in Berkeley, launching a nine-day strike. The 1,800 members of the California Nurses Association voted to go on strike because the…
“Till,” 2022, a film directed by Chinonye Chukwu, written by Michael Reilly, Keith Beauchamp, and Chinonye Chukwu, starring Danielle Deadwyler. BY ILONA GERSH If you want to learn about the powerful movement that ended the brutal Jim Crow system of…
NEW YORK — “We’re fighting for higher wages and union security,” Laura Harshberger, a senior production editor and chair of the bargaining unit at HarperCollins, told the Militant. Some 200 workers — hourly employees in editorial, sales, publicity, design, legal…
To mark the anniversary of the Jan. 1, 1959, popular triumph in Cuba, the first of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January is Fidel Castro: Nothing Can Stop the Course of History. It is a wide-ranging interview by Jeffrey…
CHICAGO — In rail yards and on locomotives across the country discussion and debate continue among rail workers over how to respond to the ongoing attacks from the rail bosses and the government. These include grueling schedules, draconian attendance policies,…
The Ukrainian people are withstanding some of the heaviest aerial bombardment since Moscow’s war began as they fight tenaciously to drive back its invasion. Russian President Vladimir Putin seeks to demoralize working people by crippling Ukraine’s power supplies as winter…
SEATTLE — “We’ve come very far and we are not going to stop. A lot of us want a union,” Joceline Castillo, a worker at Ostrom Mushroom Farms, told a rally of 60 other mushroom workers and supporters here Nov.…
