October 12, 1998 WORTHINGTON, Minnesota — More than 700 farmers and their supporters gathered here Sept. 19 to demand guaranteed prices for farm commodities and relief for farmers this year. Farmers that spoke at the rally described the reality facing…
CHICAGO — Socialist Workers Party members and supporters sold 171 books and 42 introductory subscriptions to the Militant, along with 58 single copies, at the annual Printers Row book festival here Sept. 9-10. The booth was one of the busiest,…
LOS ANGELES — Former Walmart workers in California recently opened their mail to find checks from settlement of a class-action lawsuit that had charged the retail giant with inaccurately reporting workers’ wages between 2016 and 2021. “In August, I received…
NEW YORK — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel spoke at the United Nations and a wide range of meetings during a week-long visit here starting Sept. 17. He called for ending the U.S. economic war on Cuba and for Cuba’s removal…
WASHINGTON — Two Molotov cocktails were thrown at the Cuban Embassy here Sept. 24, hitting the front wall. There were no injuries to embassy personnel. The terrorist attack came on the heels of Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel’s trip to New…
TORONTO — Some 5,600 Unifor members at Ford voted up a three-year contract negotiated by the union just hours before a strike deadline. The Sept. 24 vote was by the narrowest of margins — 54% to approve — despite bosses…
After months of economic blockade, Turkish-backed Azerbaijani forces attacked and seized the ethnic Armenian-controlled enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, inside Azerbaijan, Sept. 19. Russian troops, which Moscow had promised would defend the enclave’s sovereignty, made no move to do so. The rout…
Statement by Lea Sherman, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey General Assembly, released Sept. 27. There is no better example of what workers are capable of accomplishing than Cuba’s socialist revolution. The power of that example for workers here…
TOLEDO, Ohio — United Auto Workers at the Stellantis Assembly Center here have been on strike since Sept. 15, along with autoworkers at the Ford plant in Wayne, Michigan, and General Motors in Wentzville, Missouri. They’ve been joined by walkouts…
LOS ANGELES — A tentative settlement in the nearly five-month-long Writers Guild of America strike against the bosses’ Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers was announced Sept. 24 after several days of talks between the union negotiating committee and…
