With supporting briefs filed by President Donald Trump’s Justice Department, the Exxon Mobil and Havana Docks bosses took cases before the U.S. Supreme Court Feb. 23, seeking millions of dollars for property nationalized by the Cuban government — with massive…
MONTREAL — Ignoring a union-sponsored demonstration here Nov. 29 that drew 50,000 people — unionists, students, community group members, doctors and others protesting a series of laws either adopted or proposed by the Coalition for the Future of Quebec (CAQ)…
Tens of thousands protested across Iran Feb. 17-18 to mark the 40-day commemoration of the massacre of more than 7,000 protesters at the hands of the bourgeois clerical regime. “This flower that was cut down has become a gift to…
MANCHESTER, England — “From what I know Cuba won’t break so easily as Venezuela,” David Lawrence, a gateline ticket checker at Manchester Piccadilly rail station, told Hugo Wils. Wils is the Communist League candidate in the parliamentary by-election for the…
Prison authorities at the Taylor Correctional Institution in Perry, Florida, have now impounded three consecutive issues of the Militant, dated Feb. 2, Feb. 9 and Feb. 16. They object to three lead articles in each issue, which report on the…
Over 3,800 meatpacking workers, members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 at JBS in Greeley, Colorado, voted by almost 99% Feb. 4 to authorize a strike, but a strike deadline has not been set. They are fed up…
MINNEAPOLIS — Hundreds gathered in South Minneapolis Feb. 16 for a march and rally sponsored by the Minnesota AFL-CIO to protest the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and border control agencies’ ongoing arrests and brutality here. Speakers urged people to keep…
LOS ANGELES — The strike by some 31,000 members of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals at hospitals and clinics in California and Hawaii entered its fourth week Feb. 16. Spirited strike lines of nurses and…
SAN FRANCISCO — The spirits of the nearly 6,000 teachers here are high as they return to their classrooms following a four-day strike. The agreement they won includes wage increases as well as fully funded family medical coverage. Starting in…
BEND, Ore. — Some 1,000 high school students walked out of school here to protest ICE brutality and attacks on the rights of immigrants Feb. 13. The protest was organized by Bend Student Voices. Students from all four of the…
