NEW YORK — Seventeen people perished, including eight children, all from smoke inhalation during a Jan. 9 fire in the 19-story Twin Parks Northeast building in the Bronx. The big-business media immediately laid the blame on a seemingly thoughtless tenant…
BROOKWOOD, Ala. — “We’ve worked out with the court that the union can start picketing again,” United Mine Workers of America District 20 Representative James Blankenship told the crowd of striking Warrior Met Coal miners at their weekly solidarity rally…
ARVADA, Colo. — The strike by some 8,400 United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 members against the giant Kroger’s grocery chain King Soopers remains strong, with picket lines set up here and throughout the greater Denver area, from Boulder…
The ruling capitalist families face a deepening political crisis today. Neither of the parties they’ve relied on for decades can provide them with political stability. Both Democrats and Republicans are locked in relentless battles for turf and control, and both…
Talks between the U.S.-led NATO military alliance and the Russian government over Moscow’s troop buildup on its border with Ukraine ended in a deadlock Jan. 13. Washington, no friend of the Ukrainian people, is defending the economic and political interests…
Socialist Workers Party members and fellow supporters of the Militant are using the paper’s international renewal drive to continue discussions with readers on perspectives to defend the rights and needs of the working class, exchange views on the big political…
February 3, 1997 All those who support women’s rights and democratic rights should be in the streets and in front of the clinics in response to the bombings of abortion facilities in Atlanta and Tulsa, Oklahoma. Protests and meetings are…
WORCESTER, Mass. —Nurses organized by the Massachusetts Nurses Association at St. Vincent Hospital struck the Tenet-owned facility here for 10 months. On Jan. 3 they voted 487-9 to ratify a contract that provides for a limit of four patient assignments…
Rising prices — especially on food, gas, rent and other necessities — are wreaking havoc with the lives of millions of working people. Strikes and other struggles by workers and their unions today for wage raises include demands for cost-of-living…
