Now halfway through the term of President Joseph Biden, his Border Patrol agents arrested a record 2.2 million immigrants in 2022 at the border with Mexico. Nearly half were deported back under Title 42, a 1944 law invoked in March…
LONDON — “The strike is solid,” Jim Hart, Unite union representative at the Abellio Bus depot in Battersea, told the Militant Dec. 31. They’ve carried out 13 days of strike action since November, fighting against boss attacks on their wages…
OAKLAND, Calif. — Union nurses at Sutter Alta Bates hospitals here and in Berkeley concluded a nine-day strike on New Year’s Day with rallies at both locations. Some 1,800 members of the California Nurses Association had turned down hospital bosses’…
Joining the full-time Militant writing staff is Vivian Sahner, a member of the Socialist Workers Party branch in Northern New Jersey. Sahner was the 2021 SWP candidate for lieutenant governor in New Jersey while part of the party’s national trade…
Sixty-four years ago, on Jan. 1, 1959, workers and farmers in Cuba brought down one of the bloodiest tyrannies in the Americas, the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, opening the door to making a socialist revolution. Led by Fidel Castro…
George Bryant From his early 20s, to his death on Dec. 26 at 91 years old in a Wallaceburg, Ontario, nursing home, George Bryant was a supporter of the international communist movement and the Cuban Revolution. In the late 1950s,…
January 19, 1998 PARIS — Three thousand people marched here January 7 demanding government relief for unemployed workers. Some of the demonstrators carried signs reading “jobs!” Workers have been occupying 26 unemployment offices throughout France with the protests spreading rapidly.…
The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany by Russian revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. The term “fascist” is falsely used by liberals and the middle-class left today as an anti-working-class epithet. Trotsky…
MILLSBORO, Del. — In a statement printed in the Jan. 2 Militant, Ilona Gersh, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Chicago mayor, points to the need for conditions that allow young workers to begin families, including affordable housing. This is an…
LOS ANGELES — Some 36,000 University of California graduate student workers across the state organized by the United Auto Workers ratified a new union contract Dec. 23, ending their strike. It was the nation’s largest strike to date of academic…
