The profit-driven priorities of the capitalist owners of the airline industry and their collaborators in the government lay behind the frightening 90-second collapse of radar directing planes in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport April 28 and May 9.…
OAKLAND, Calif. — Members of the Socialist Workers Party, and of the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K., are organizing to complete the spring campaign to win 1,300 Militant subscribers, sell a similar number of books by revolutionary…
AUGUSTA, Mich. — After two months on strike, members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 3G are standing strong. The 20 workers who make baking flour at Knappen Milling here walked out March 11, fighting for wages…
PALMETTO, Ga. — “We can tell the strike is hurting the company,” Billy Glover, a driver at 10 Roads Express for 24 years and member of Teamsters Local 728, told the Militant April 29. “With the union, work is safer.…
BIRMINGHAM, England — The strike by hundreds of refuse workers here, members of the Unite union, has entered its ninth week and is winning support. Eleven drivers at Perry Barr, one of three refuse depots, who were previously crossing the…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Luis Morejón Rodríguez, Cuba’s ambassador to New Zealand, called for support from a gathering of 25 people here April 27 for Cuba’s fight against the “economic strangulation” imposed by the U.S. rulers’ 60-plus-years of economic war…
LONDON — “The celebrations of Victory in Europe Day marking the end of the second imperialist world war there, in London, Moscow and elsewhere in the past few days are not about history,” Communist League leader Catharina Tirsén told a…
3,169 people sign so far to put SWP on NJ ballot UNION CITY, N.J. — “With 3,169 people signing up so far to put the Socialist Workers Party on the ballot, we’ll easily go over our goal of 3,200 before…
This week the Militant is featuring “The Opening Guns of World War III: Washington’s Assault on Iraq” by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. It’s the lead article in New International no. 7. Along with issues no.…
The following are excerpts from an Aug. 19, 1958, broadcast by Fidel Castro from the Sierra Maestra mountains on Radio Rebelde, the station of the Rebel Army during the revolutionary war against the Fulgencio Batista tyranny. It is reprinted from…
