In the midst of Washington’s stepped-up economic war aimed at strangling the Cuban people, “Cuban Book Day” was celebrated in Havana and several of the country’s provinces March 31. The events marked the founding of the country’s National Printing House…
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Joan Paltrineri, a member of the Socialist Workers Party for nearly 30 years, from the early 1970s to late ’90s, died Feb. 24, after battling the effects of severe strokes over the past several years. Some 55…
As part of a brutal war between gangs and vigilante forces in Haiti, some 70 people were killed days before a United Nations-backed peacekeeping force began arriving, supposedly to quell gang violence. Intervention by an earlier U.N.-supported mission had utterly…
UNION CITY, N.J. — Socialist Workers Party members are winning support to put the party’s candidates, Joanne Kuniansky for U.S. Senate and Craig Honts for U.S. Congress, on the ballot in New Jersey. Many workers are pleased to sign up…
The 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, the 1986 explosion and fire destroying reactor No. 4 of the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine, is April 26. But Moscow’s over-four-year-long war attempting to seize that sovereign country risks…
MONTREAL — Newly declassified Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Service files have confirmed that in the 1960s and ’70s the Canadian rulers’ top spy outfit systematically infiltrated and sought to disrupt Indigenous and other political groups. The RCMP program “was…
HAMMOND, Ind. — Hundreds of members of the United Steelworkers union, including oil refinery workers locked out by British Petroleum, and members of other unions in this area rallied outside of the main office of the Northern Indiana Public Service…
In a victory for readers of the Militant behind bars and all defenders of free speech and prisoners’ rights, the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee informed the paper April 1 that it had overturned the impoundment by prison…
UNION CITY, N.J. — “World politics more and more inserts itself into every election campaign,” Paul Mailhot, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New York, told 37 people here at a March 28 Militant Labor Forum. The meeting kicked…
Protests against President Donald Trump were held across the country March 28, organized by the “No Kings” coalition. The intent of the organizers was to whip up support for the Democratic Party, one of the U.S. capitalist rulers’ two main…
