Under the pressure of Washington and other capitalist powers, a transitional presidential council was established in Haiti April 25 prior to the arrival of a Kenyan-led foreign military force. It’s tasked with quelling the current levels of gang violence and…
Young workers are being ravaged by the continuing scourge of inflation marking today’s capitalist economic and social crisis. The average credit card debt for 22- to 24-year-olds has ballooned to a record high of $2,834 per youth at the end…
The opening guns of World War III are getting louder, and the reality of the imperialist epoch is becoming clearer to millions. While the ruling capitalist families wield state power, their drive for profit, dog-eat-dog competition and sharpening clashes inexorably…
Crimea’s indigenous Tatar population has faced occupation, oppression and even mass deportation for generations. A decade after Moscow’s forces seized the peninsula in 2014, the regime of Vladimir Putin has failed to break Tatars speaking out against its rule and…
May 31, 1999 HAVANA, Cuba — “On May 17, 1959, we crossed the Rubicon,” stated Cuban president Fidel Castro at a rally here celebrating the adoption, exactly 40 years ago, of a land reform law, one of the first —…
LOWESTOFT, England — Some 175 workers struck the ASDA superstore in this small town 130 miles northeast of London May 10-11, the third strike in a campaign by General Municipal and Boilermakers union members against “toxic” conditions at the company.…
MONTREAL — “In April our strike vote was approved by 98%,” Massara Kamagate, Confederation of National Trade Unions shop steward at the Rona home improvement big-box store in Anjou, told the Militant May 9. The 172 union members walked out…
In issue no. 20, the headline “Railroad, port workers in Canada vote to go on strike” was incorrect. Montreal port workers overwhelmingly rejected the bosses’ contract offer but unlike the rail workers they have not yet taken a vote to…
Hotel workers and other unionists across the country took the May Day workers’ holiday to hold marches and rallies marking strikes and other fights with the bosses. Below are a few examples. Over 1,000 D.C. hotel workers march on May…
