SAUK VILLAGE, Ill. — Some 100 Teamsters rallied here May 11 in the parking lot of a huge ABF Freight terminal, 35 miles south of Chicago. The union is in negotiations with two trucking companies, ABF and TForce Freight, and…
SHERBROOKE, Quebec — Some 1,000 public sector workers in Quebec and their supporters marched and rallied here May 13 outside the convention of the Coalition for Quebec’s Future (CAQ), the province’s governing party. They are demanding better pay, protection from…
COLUMBUS JUNCTION, Iowa — Workers at the Tyson Foods pork processing plant here and at West Liberty Foods, owned by Iowa Turkey Cooperatives, have begun union organizing drives with United Food and Commercial Workers union Local 431. The 1,400 workers…
BY ANDRÉS MENDOZA, DAG TIRSÉN AND PAMELA HOLMES LONDON — Thousands of nurses and other health workers took part in a one-day work stoppage at half the hospitals across England May 1, in a long-running dispute with the government over…
After five days of trading missile fire, the Israeli government and Gaza-based Islamic Jihad agreed to a cease-fire May 13. The latest round of fighting — the 15th major clash between the Israeli army and Islamist militias in Gaza since…
On the 98th anniversary of his birthday this month, the Militant is featuring a selection from Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. Barnes said that “Malcolm…
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — In an ongoing series of meetings here hosted by the Environmental Protection Agency, working people, farmers and small-business people continue to express their anger and distrust at claims being made by the railroad and government agencies.…
The Militant extends a warm welcome to new readers who subscribed during the recent campaign to increase its readership. The paper is true to its masthead — a socialist newsweekly published in the interests of working people. Its reports on…
The 2024 presidential campaign is well underway, with Donald Trump, Joseph Biden, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and more announced or just running. Biden threw his hat in the ring via video, evidently not wanting to make…
June 1, 1998 Indonesian president Suharto announced his resignation May 21 under the mounting pressure of tens of thousands of workers, students, and others who converged on the parliament the day before demanding his ouster. The social crisis choking Indonesia…
