World renowned Russian opera singer Anna Netrebko performed before 450 people in a packed hotel ballroom in Palm Beach, Florida, Feb. 3. This was her first appearance on stage in the U.S. since Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine three…
President Donald Trump’s administration imposed stiff tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports to the U.S. Feb. 10, claiming the duties will defend jobs for workers in those and related industries and are in the interests of “all Americans.” In…
Public protests took place in Cape Town and Pretoria Feb. 5 in solidarity with the immigrant gold miners killed by starvation as they were forced to stay for weeks in the deep underground gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa. Demanding…
By a vote of 63,680 to 26,304, postal workers in the National Association of Letter Carriers soundly defeated a tentative three-year contract proposal that offered only a paltry 1.3% wage increase a year. The 200,000 workers, who are barred by…
LOS ANGELES — “The way Kaiser operates they make consistency in patient care difficult. This impacts the sustainability and longevity of this kind of work. They steal your passion,” Yolando Centeno Raphael told the Militant at a Feb. 7 picket…
LONDON — A horrendous picture of government knowledge of — and refusal to act on — the abuse of girls has engendered a discussion among working people. Eight men from Rochdale, near Manchester, are on trial for 56 sexual offenses,…
Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing a harsher crackdown targeting wider layers of organizations and individuals that oppose his regime’s war against the people of Ukraine. A special target is 172 ethnic and indigenous rights groups and media outlets branded…
DALLAS — Alyson Kennedy, right, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Fort Worth, and Hilda Cuzco, the party’s candidate for Fort Worth City Council, joined a rally downtown of thousands here Feb. 2 to protest the step up in…
After Washington announced plans to imprison thousands of immigrant workers on the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo, Cuba’s Ministry of the Exterior responded Jan. 29. The U.S. rulers seized Guantánamo Bay in 1903 as spoils of their victory in the…
ST. PAUL, Minn. — “We don’t want to talk about what we don’t have, we want to talk about what we’re going to get,” ramp worker Rob LaVigne told a Jan. 25 rally of 200 people at the St. Paul…
