BEDFORD PARK, Ill. — “We’re here to show the company you can’t treat us like this,” William Gehrig told Militant correspondents visiting the picket line outside the Metal-Matic plant here April 7. Gehrig and some 120 other members of United…
SEATTLE — Over 100 students and unionists rallied together at the University of Washington here March 31 in support of mushroom workers in Sunnyside fighting to win recognition of the United Farm Workers at Greenwood Mushrooms, formerly known as Ostrom.…
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region, Iraq — At the end of March, Yazidis gathered on the grounds of Lalish Temple in northern Iraq for a religious ceremony, the extraction of olive oil for illuminating the temple. It was a reminder that almost…
The Case of the Legless Veteran by James Kutcher is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. In the decade after World War II, the Socialist Workers Party, Communist Party and others were targeted as part of the…
April 27, 1998 The governments of Britain and Ireland, and the parties participating in the talks in Northern Ireland published an agreement at the conclusion of their negotiations on April 10. The agreement establishes a Northern Ireland assembly, to be…
Why are the U.S. rulers waging an economic war against the people of Cuba? “Not fear of the Cuban Revolution,” Fidel Castro told a meeting of a million in Havana in 1962. “But fear of the Latin American revolution.” Fear…
For the first time since the 1959 Cuban Revolution, a baseball team representing Cuba played in Miami March 19. They were participating in the World Baseball Classic semifinals against the U.S. team. The Cuban team played with dignity in the…
The Socialist Workers Party 2023 International Educational Conference is less than two months away. The conference will take place June 8-11 at Oberlin College, in Oberlin, Ohio. The conference will include reports by leaders of the party, classes and discussion…
For the first time in decades, the Militant now has over 200 subscribers in 66 state and federal prisons across 28 states. Since the paper is often shared as part of what some workers behind bars call the “newspaper train,”…
PAJARO, Calif. — On March 30, dozens of angry victims of flooding here, many of them farmworkers, marched down muddy and debris-covered streets in a protest demanding government aid and equal treatment for undocumented workers. Ramiro Medrano, who helped organize…
