Actions in Miami, across US, back Cuba’s nat’l sovereignty MIAMI — The U.S. rulers’ escalating economic and political war against Cuba and its national sovereignty are worsening the humanitarian crisis facing the Cuban people. Groups from the National Network on…
On May 17, National Farmers’ Day in Cuba, working people across the island marked the anniversary of the First Agrarian Reform. It was carried through 67 years ago by the workers and farmers government that had taken power five months…
Statement by Paul Mailhot, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New York, to the U.N. Special Committee on Decolonization annual hearing on the status of Puerto Rico June 22. Mailhot was one of nearly 60 people who spoke, the…
THREE RIVERS, Mich. — Nearly 1,000 striking members of United Auto Workers Local 2093 returned to work June 15 after winning substantial gains. They had walked off the job at the large American Axle plant here, now called Dauch, two…
In a significant victory for the constitutional right of workers behind bars to read material of their choosing and of the Militant to reach its inmate subscribers, Florida prison authorities after months of dispute overturned bans on three issues of…
“The Great American Job-Creation Machine Comes Back to Life,” headlined an enthusiastic June 6 Wall Street Journal article, hailing the Labor Department’s claim 172,000 jobs were “created” in May. But a closer look at the facts shows this claim is…
Violent assaults targeting Jews in the U.S. and worldwide are sharply expanding, shattering illusions that the Jewish people will be protected from abuse and attack by Washington and other “democratic” imperialist powers. These assaults go side by side with the…
PARIS — “The fight for freedom is not local, it’s worldwide,” María Isabel Bardina of Cuba’s Camagüey University told 30 people at a meeting here to present Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde: The Fall of…
WHITING, Ind. — Ever since they were locked out by BP over three months ago, the 800 members of United Steelworkers Local 7-1 here have been on the picket line 24/7 and won a lot of support. Visitors to the…
PHILADELPHIA — Some 160 workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 274, struck the Sheraton Hotel, the largest in Philadelphia, June 21. A four-day walkout last October ended without a new contract. The workers are seeking wages of $30 per hour,…
