MANCHESTER, England — “Our claim is for a 5% rise in our wages, the company is offering 2%,” Malcolm Bostock, a Unite union representative, told the Militant on the picket line at the CHEP U.K. plant in Trafford Park. CHEP…
As they deepen their assaults on working people and political rights, the regimes in Moscow and Beijing are trying to silence political opponents by smearing them as “foreign agents.” Washington condemns these two rivals for repression, but has used the…
Making History: Interviews With Four Generals of Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces by José Ramón Fernández, Enrique Carreras, Harry Villegas, and Néstor López Cuba is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. The excerpt below is from an interview…
PITTSBURGH — “Charge these officers now!” chanted 20 protesters outside the City-County Building here Dec. 17, demanding the cops who repeatedly stunned Jim Rogers with Tasers Oct. 13 be charged. Rogers died in the hospital the next day. His family…
The condensed excerpts below are taken from a Dec. 1, 1961, speech published rapidly by the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, which campaigned across the U.S. in defense of Cuba’s unfolding socialist revolution, under the title “Fidel Castro Speaks on…
“This is all about control for them, control over union rights,” locked-out oil refinery worker Darrell Kyle told the Militant, referring to ExxonMobil bosses’ assault on the United Steelworkers union in Beaumont, Texas. Like other workers walking picket lines, Steelworkers…
January 20, 1997 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fifty Black farmers and supporters from the National Black Farmers Association — coming from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas — demonstrated in front of the White House December 12 to…
When three Caucasian men were convicted in the Brunswick, Georgia, killing of African American jogger Ahmaud Arbery last November, two were found guilty, not of killing him but of “felony murder.” That is, they didn’t kill Arbery but were present…
SANTA FE SPRINGS, Calif. — “Morale is good, nobody has walked in,” strike leader Miguel Perez told the Militant Jan. 3, “even though the company canceled our insurance at the end of December.” The strike by 175 Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco…
