The fight by labor unions and defenders of the rights of immigrants to win the release of Alfredo Juárez Zeferino, a farmworker union militant detained by the immigration police March 25, continues to win support. “The Sugarcane Workers Union (UTC)…
Israel’s fight to defend its existence as a refuge from Jew-hatred and pogroms is at the center of the intensifying rivalries gripping the world’s major capitalist powers today. For the working class, the defense of Israel’s existence is a key…
Russian President Vladimir Putin is pursuing his regime’s murderous war aimed at ending Ukraine’s right to exist as a sovereign state. He has feigned interest in calls by President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for peace talks, while…
Top officials in the Donald Trump administration say they’re leaning toward suspending the constitutionally protected right of habeas corpus, the inalienable right of all people — U.S. citizens or not — to challenge their arrest in court. The threat comes…
May 29, 2000 Two counterposed class perspectives on health care, social security and pensions were put forward this past week. Presidential candidate George W. Bush made proposals for a transformation away from Social Security and Medicare. Democrat Vice President Albert…
In Washington’s latest attack against Cuba’s socialist revolution, Secretary of State Marco Rubio placed Cuba back on the list of countries “not fully cooperating” with U.S. “counterterrorism” efforts May 13. The ruling further prohibits commerce and services with Cuba. It’s…
The following is based on a statement sent to Consulate Generals of Israel Los Angeles and San Francisco on May 22 by Norton Sandler, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of California, and Laura Garza, Socialist Workers Party candidate for…
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.…
