Cosmetic surgeries and injections “have been getting cheaper, less invasive and vastly more common in recent years, in middle income countries as well as rich ones,” a Jan. 4 article in the Economist boasts. “Falling costs and technology have democratized”…
The protracted political crisis and murderous gang violence in Haiti continues to spiral, with devastating consequences for working people. At least 5,600 people were killed by gangs in 2024, and the number of those forced to flee their homes tripled…
LONDON — Labour Party Prime Minister Keir Starmer has welcomed Israel’s ceasefire as “desperately needed to end the suffering in Gaza.” For months Starmer has pressured the Israeli government to end the war before Hamas was destroyed and before Israel…
TEANECK, N.J. — Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New Jersey, joined a protest of some 25 people defending Israel’s right to exist as a refuge from Jew-hatred and pogroms held outside the Marriott Hotel here March…
NEW YORK — Loud chants of “Union power, worker strong!” echoed up and down the street in front of the Alamo Drafthouse dine-in theater in Lower Manhattan March 7. Car drivers honked in support and passersby stopped to take a…
HAVANA — “How do capitalism’s cosmetics and fashion ‘industries’ play on the emotional, sexual and economic insecurities of women and adolescents to generate profits?” That question was at the heart of a lively exchange here among panelists and audience members…
Below are remarks given by Mary-Alice Waters on Feb. 18 during the 2025 Havana International Book Fair to present Cosmetics, Fashion, and the Exploitation of Women by Joseph Hansen, Evelyn Reed, and Waters (see news article here). Waters is a…
Florida state prison authorities informed the Militant that the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee would hold an initial hearing March 6 to discuss the impoundment of the Militant’s Jan. 20, 2025, issue at the Santa Rosa Correctional Institution…
Germany’s imperialist rulers are making a sharp shift to boost preparations for war — and to kick-start their floundering economy — with a historic debt deal. Their goal was captured in a Financial Times headline, “From a welfare state to…
EDMONTON, Alberta — Over 6,600 school workers, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, are on strike across Alberta for higher wages. The workers include educational assistants, cafeteria workers, librarians, administrative office workers and custodians. “Many of us have…
