Both the middle-class left and liberal press have pointed to the narrow victory won by Abdul El-Sayed in the Aug. 4 Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Michigan as part of a surprising socialist swing in U.S. politics. For their…
MONTREAL — The Communist League here is running an energetic working-class campaign for Joe Young, its candidate for the October elections to the Quebec National Assembly for the electoral district of St. Laurent. Party members joined Young in campaigning at…
This resolution, submitted by a delegate from the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union and seconded by the United Steelworkers union, was adopted unanimously by the convention of the North Dakota State AFL-CIO on June 30. WHEREAS: Both…
HAVANA — The First International Fidel Colloquium: Legacy and Future opened here Aug. 10. René González Barrios, director of the Fidel Castro Ruz Center, which is organizing the four-day event, told participants that the 1,500 people attending include over 1,000…
The following statement was released Aug. 9 by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, on behalf of the party’s National Committee. The Socialist Workers Party calls on working people, the labor movement, and all supporters of constitutional…
MONTREAL — The 300 members of United Steelworkers Local 6951 went on strike at the West ArcelorMittal plant in Contrecoeur Aug. 1, the day after their old contract expired. Contrecoeur is an hour’s drive northeast of Montreal. When Militant worker-correspondents…
MONTREAL — On Aug. 2 more than 4,000 flight attendants at WestJet, Canada’s second largest airline, went on strike, setting up picket lines at airports from coast to coast. After little more than 24 hours, their union, Canadian Union of…
August 27, 2001 In the biggest military attack against Iraq in six months, 50 U.S. and British warplanes unleashed a bombing assault in southern Iraq on Aug. 10. Three days earlier the Pentagon had dropped bombs in the northern part…
Socialist Workers Party candidates around the country are the only voice in the 2026 elections presenting a working-class road to end the capitalist rulers’ devastating wars abroad and their relentless profit drive that targets workers’ wages and conditions of life…
In the last two days of July, some 72,000 mostly young people living in Morocco crossed the land border into the adjacent Spanish enclave of Ceuta, with 75 immigrants dying. Many attempted a 3-mile swim around the border breakwater to…
