SAN FRANCISCO — After six months of negotiations without reaching an acceptable contract, food and other concession workers at the San Francisco airport picketed outside the international terminal here June 18. The workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 2, are…
The following statement was released May 26 by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, on behalf of the party’s National Committee. The Socialist Workers Party, in the strongest possible terms, condemns the U.S. rulers’ accelerating acts of…
On May 20 the U.S. Justice Department filed charges against Cuban leader Raúl Castro and five Cuban pilots for murder, conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals and destruction of U.S. civilian aircraft. The case revolves around a 1996 downing of two…
The conflicting interests of Washington and Israel are clearer than ever as the Donald Trump administration pushes to reach a deal with the Iranian regime. Washington’s war on Iran and its on-again, off-again negotiations with Tehran are both aimed at…
FORT MORGAN, Colo. — Some 1,700 Teamsters union members who work at the giant Cargill meat processing plant here were locked out by the company May 20. The unionists had rejected the company’s so-called last and best contract offer by…
For more than four years, Ukrainian working people have fought courageously to protect their country’s sovereignty in the face of Moscow’s murderous assaults. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who claims Ukraine doesn’t exist as a real country, is incapable of understanding…
Ban on Militant overturned in Tennessee Tennessee prison authorities informed the Militant’s attorney June 5 that the ban on the Militant in a prison there has been overturned. More in the next issue. The Militant is encouraging its readers to…
ATLANTA — Fifty-one people attended a spirited meeting here April 19 to celebrate the life and political contributions of John Benson, a member and leader of the Socialist Workers Party for 64 years. Benson died March 6 after a brief…
MONTREAL — Canada’s capitalist rulers, along with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party government, are backing U.S. imperialism’s accelerating attacks on Cuba with the same goal — overthrowing Cuba’s socialist revolution. At the same time, a growing number of unions…
WHITING, Ind. — “This is going to be a long one. But we are united and we’ll keep going as long as we need to,” Michelle O’Shaughnessy told the Militant on the picket line outside the BP oil refinery here…
