We urge our readers to endorse Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president. There is no other choice you can make that will advance toward a break with the capitalist parties and a step toward independent working-class…
May 17, 1999 SEATTLE — Luis Morejón and Itamys García, two Cuban youth leaders, came to Seattle as part of their six-week U.S. speaking tour, and some 360 people in several meetings heard them speak about the Cuban revolution today.…
PHILADELPHIA — “We want to be treated fairly and with respect,” Lori Gibson, one of hundreds of UNITE HERE Local 274 members on the picket line here on strike against Aramark April 25, told the Militant. They were picketing at…
BY DIANE SHUR, JANE ROLAND AND SUE SKINNER STATESVILLE, N.C. — A tentative contract agreement was announced between Daimler Truck and the United Auto Workers April 26, an hour before the strike deadline. According to UAW officials the four-year agreement…
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…
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…
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…
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…
