After tens of thousands took to the streets in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, the country’s ruling party backed off its plans to impose a law that would curtail political rights and limit freedom of the press. Protesters say the…
In an important victory for freedom of speech and the press, Florida prison authorities March 9 overturned a ban on the Militant’s Jan. 30 issue. They instructed officials at Blackwater River Correctional Facility to give the paper to subscribers of…
Thousands of workers and youth marched across Greece again March 12, protesting the Greek government’s responsibility in the head-on collision between a passenger and a freight train that killed 57 people Feb. 28. They demanded those involved be punished. More…
With this issue the international campaign begins to expand the reach of the Militant and books by Socialist Workers Party and other revolutionary leaders and to raise $165,000 for the paper. Members of the SWP and Communist Leagues in Australia,…
Weekly protests by retired workers in Iran that began Jan. 22 demanding the government raise social security payments to keep up with inflation continue. On March 12 and 13 retirees from the steel, telecommunications, sugar and other industries protested in…
BRIDPORT, Vt. — “There were 42 dairy farms in this area in the 1980s,” 11th-generation dairy farmer Paul Plouffe told these two Militant worker-correspondents when we visited his farm here Feb. 5. “Now there are just eight left, after a…
MONTREAL — “Working people and our unions should oppose Premier Francois Legault’s anti-working-class campaign against immigrants. This is now centered on demanding that Ottawa shut down the unofficial Roxham Road crossing between Canada and the U.S. used by thousands of…
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Socialist Workers Party members visited with workers and farmers here March 13-14, discussing how rail workers and other union members, farmers, small proprietors and youth in the area can come together to force Norfolk Southern rail…
CAMDEN, N.J. — Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey state Senate, along with Chris Hoeppner, SWP candidate for mayor of Philadelphia, and this Militant reporter, visited the sanitation workers picket line here in solidarity March 4. The…
Democrats and Republicans are tied up in partisan squabbling over President Joseph Biden’s $6.8 trillion budget plan. While they disagree on Biden’s proposed social expenditures and new taxes to fund them, both parties agree on the need to allocate billions…
