RICHMOND, Calif. — Public protests paid off for Safeway bread plant workers here, who won a new contract 14 months after their old one expired. The workers won wage gains of $4.95 an hour over four years, and the fight…
Solidarity in Cuba after Hurricane Melissa Hurricane Melissa crossed eastern Cuba Oct. 29 with sustained winds of 120 mph and torrential rains. No lives were lost, but agriculture was devastated and many thousands of homes were damaged or destroyed. As…
SYDNEY — Hundreds turned out at rallies organized by “Never Again Is Now” in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth Oct. 26 to protest Jew-hatred, and simultaneous actions were held in another 12 cities and towns. Two weeks earlier, 8,000 members of…
In an important victory for freedom of speech and the press, Missouri prison authorities have overturned the ban on Militant issue no. 28, dated Aug. 11, at the South Central Correctional Center in Licking. It will be delivered to the…
As a two-and-a-half-year bloody civil war ravages the toilers in Sudan, the reactionary Rapid Support Forces seized el-Fasher, the largest city in the Darfur region, Oct. 26, unleashing a massacre against the indigenous black population. Two days later, RSF paramilitary…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — United Parcel Service Flight 2976 crashed almost immediately after takeoff at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport Nov. 4, killing at least 14 people, mostly area workers, injuring many more and destroying or damaging workplaces in the…
While Hamas is using the U.S.-imposed ceasefire to shore up its brutal dictatorship in Gaza, the White House is keeping up pressure on Israel, demanding it refrain from any major attack on the Tehran-backed group whose founding covenant calls for…
The U.S. War Department announced Nov. 10 its forces attacked and sank two more boats, killing six people, off the shore of Venezuela, claiming they are targeting “narco-terrorists.” This brings the total to 76 people killed in 19 deadly attacks.…
OAKLAND, Calif. — Supporters of the Socialist Workers Party are in the final days of the eight-week fall campaign to introduce the party to more working people and extend the readership of the Militant and books by SWP and other…
