In response to recent steps by Donald Trump’s administration at home and abroad, Democrats and the middle-class left have launched new attacks on the president. All political issues get reduced to “for or against Trump,” ensuring that the fundamental class…
Two Militant subscribers who are prisoners at the Santa Rosa Correctional Institution in Milton, Florida, notified the Militant that issue no. 2, dated Jan. 20, 2025, has been impounded there. But a closer read of the impoundment notice shows prison…
HAVANA — The Cuban Revolution’s decadeslong history of aiding freedom struggles in Africa is a central theme of this year’s Havana International Book Fair. Several featured book presentations have addressed this internationalist record, and South Africa is…
FORT WORTH, Texas — Some 45 members of Teamsters Local 745 set up strike picket lines at the Hertz car rental facility at the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport Jan. 18 after the company refused to offer a new contract…
SPALDING, England — Hundreds of Unite union members at the Bakkavor food factory here have been on strike for nearly five months fighting for better pay. Since Feb. 11 they have reinforced their picket lines, determined to defend their union.…
SYDNEY — Electricians working for Sydney Trains walked off the job for eight hours here Feb. 12, part of an ongoing fight for a new contract. Some 200 members of the Electrical Trades Union from different depots joined a rally…
BURNABY, British Columbia — More than 200 striking lab technicians, members of the British Columbia General Employees’ Union, and their supporters held a spirited rally Feb. 16 against concessions demanded by LifeLabs, the province’s main privately owned health laboratory and…
“The Strike,” a documentary, directed by JoeBill Muñoz and Lucas Guilkey. BY BETSEY STONE OAKLAND, Calif. — I was glad to see that “The Strike,” a film about the 2013 prison hunger strike in California was aired on the PBS…
NEW YORK — Paul Mailhot, left, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of New York, joined some 60 postal workers and their supporters, in spite of heavy rain, in the Harlem neighborhood here Feb. 16 to rally in solidarity with…
MONTREAL — Hundreds of members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) and other unionists marched and rallied in the snow here Feb. 15 to protest Amazon’s move to shutter its seven Quebec distribution centers. Union flags identified teachers,…
