Car caravans and other actions took place across the country July 31 to demand an end to the decadeslong U.S. economic war against Cuba. In both Miami and New York, rightist provocateurs attempted to disrupt the protests. Organized by Bridges…
NEW YORK — More than 30 years after he was convicted, Steven Lopez, the sixth co-defendant in a 1989 frame-up trial of five youth, who became known as the Central Park Five, was exonerated July 25 in the New York…
On Aug. 9 the Supreme Court of Ohio granted Oberlin College a stay from having to pay damages long owed the Gibson family until the court can review a pending appeal filed by the school. Attorneys for the Gibson…
FAIRFIELD, Texas — Steers crowd under trees in parched brown pasture and mileslong lines of ranchers queue at the auction house here to sell off cattle they can no longer afford to feed. Texas faces the worst drought since 2011.…
Messages of support to the Cuban people and government keep arriving from around the world following a devastating fire that has destroyed four of the eight fuel tanks at the Matanzas Supertanker Base, the country’s largest oil storage and distribution…
According to government officials in Russia, there are practically no labor disputes or strikes there because amicable relations exist between workers, bosses and the government. But a closer look tells a very different story. There were almost 400 labor protests…
Chinese warships and warplanes launched live-fire “exercises” surrounding Taiwan the day after an Aug. 2-3 visit to the island by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit there in 25 years. Beijing says the island is part…
In a sweeping attack on constitutional rights, the Joe Biden administration ordered a pre-dawn raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, carried out by 30 or more heavily armed FBI and Secret Service agents. During the nine-hour…
PHILADELPHIA — “You’re on the ballot! And good luck!” Larry Otter, the Socialist Workers Party’s lawyer in Pennsylvania, told Chris Hoeppner, the SWP candidate for U.S. Congress from the 3rd District, and the Militant Aug. 9. “Despite moves by state…
Nearly six months after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a war to snuff out Ukraine’s independence and subjugate its people, Moscow’s offensive has largely stalled in the face of resolute Ukrainian resistance. Despite this, the Kremlin continues to unleash murderous…
