The three men convicted in November of killing Ahmaud Arbery and sentenced in a Georgia state courtroom to life in prison were prosecuted again for the very same crime, this time in federal court, in the same city. The constitutional…
The Russian government’s invasion of Donetsk and Luhansk is a blow to working people in Ukraine, Russia and worldwide. It must be opposed. Like its occupation of Crimea in 2014, Moscow’s violation of Ukrainian sovereignty is aimed at advancing the…
LONDON — In an attack on the rights of all working people, Gwent police arrested women’s rights campaigner Jennifer Swayne under thought-control “hate-crime” laws Jan. 23. They searched her home, seizing materials, including the book Transgender Children and Young People:…
March 10, 1997 U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright began a nine-country world tour in Rome February 16 to press the Clinton administration’s foreign policy for the U.S. capitalist class. Foremost on Albright’s agenda was an aggressive campaign to expand…
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“Angels on Horseback: Midwives in the Mountains,” a KET-TV documentary on PBS, brings to light a pioneering initiative to provide health care in rural Appalachia. Begun in 1925, the Frontier Nursing Service reduced infant mortality and maternal deaths in eastern…
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — “One hundred and thirty-four days! That’s how long we’ve been at this,” striker Jason Hogsett told this Militant worker-correspondent at the main gate picket in front of Special Metals Feb. 11. “There’s no point in giving in…
MONTREAL — “The Feb. 14 imposition of the Emergencies Act by the Liberal government of Justin Trudeau is a major attack on the democratic and political rights of working people,” Philippe Tessier said in a statement released by the Communist…
RIDGEFIELD, N.J. — “Once you’re carrying millions of dollars of their equipment, company owners treat you like they own you,” oversize load trucker Michael Pitcher told Socialist Workers Party members at the Vincent Lombardi truck stop here Feb. 13. SWP…
FINDLAY, Ohio — Over 200 United Steelworkers union-organized oil refinery workers and their supporters from across the country gathered in front of Marathon Petroleum’s corporate headquarters here Feb. 15 demanding the bosses reach a new contract that meets the needs…
