May 10, 1999 SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn. — More than 500 angry farmers from a dozen Midwestern states came to this former meatpacking center April 18 to demand the federal government do something about worsening conditions they face. Much of…
In an important victory for unions across the U.S., workers at the Chattanooga, Tennessee, Volkswagen plant voted by 73% to be represented by the United Auto Workers, giving impetus to workers fighting for union recognition elsewhere. It’s the first assembly…
Some 20,000 people, mainly young, protested in Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital, April 18, chanting, “No to the Russian law!” The former Soviet republic bordering Russia on the Black Sea has been rocked for days by demonstrations opposing the ruling Georgian Dream…
Below are the introductory note and excerpts from the second chapter of the new book The Fight Against Jew-Hatred and Pogroms in the Imperialist Epoch: Stakes for the International Working Class, which includes two of the writings by V.I. Lenin,…
ATHENS, Ga. — The Avid Bookshop here is fighting for the right to send books to prisoners. It filed a lawsuit against the sheriff and jail commander of the Gwinnett County Jail in mid-March for refusing to accept books from…
Events to celebrate May 1 — International Workers Day — are being held around the country, from strikes by e-hail drivers in several cities, to actions to win support for union contract fights and protests for the rights of immigrant…
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario— “Share the news. It must get around to everybody,” striker Maged Awad told the Militant as we walked the picket line at Toronto Pearson International Airport here April 20. Some 800 Teamsters Local 647 members struck airline meal…
BUFORD, Ga. — Chanting “No bucks, no trucks!” and “We are the union — mighty, mighty union!” some 80 members of the United Auto Workers marched here April 20 in a practice picket in front of the Daimler Trucks parts…
The reactionary clerical regime in Iran had hoped the Oct. 7 anti-Jewish pogrom it organized with Hamas, along with Israel’s response to defend itself, would reverse moves by governments in Muslim-majority countries toward normalized relations with Israel. The opposite is…
Moscow is stepping up its murderous assault on Ukrainian workers’ lives and on the mines and factories of the country’s eastern Donetsk region, as well as on crucial infrastructure across the country. Yet the Ukrainian people’s courageous determination to defend…
