CHICAGO — On May 7 nearly 200 workers, including animal care specialists, craftworkers, custodians, groundskeepers, maintenance workers, aides and others, members of Teamsters Local 727, won a new contract after two days on strike against the Chicago Zoological Society, which…
NEW YORK — “Above all, Dave Prince was a Marxist, a working-class revolutionist,” Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, told participants at a March 22 event here celebrating Prince’s life and political contributions building a proletarian party…
Hundreds of thousands of workers in the U.S. and around the world turned out for marches, rallies and other actions called by unions and others on May Day. In the U.S. many of the actions focused on the defense of…
“Cuba is fully entitled to trade for fuel with any country, without restrictions, conditions, or questioning that contravene freedom of international trade,” Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said April 14. Rodríguez condemned the U.S. rulers’ economic strangulation of Cuba, intensified…
Samuel Nava, a farmworker for more than 20 years and now a landscape designer, met Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate, at the May Day action of 250 people in Coral Gables, Florida. Agricultural workers came on…
Working-class households are being hit hard by the deepening crisis of capitalism today, squeezed by the lack of a good-paying job as well as high prices for basic necessities, from groceries to electricity, healthcare, housing, car payments, fertilizer for family…
Uncertainty about what will happen next in the Strait of Hormuz and in Washington’s war on Iran continues against a backdrop of deepening rivalry and shifting alliances between capitalist powers worldwide, each looking to defend their own conflicting interests. The…
For the first time since it became an option in 2022, the Militant on April 28 requested the Florida Department of Corrections convene a special meeting of its Literature Review Committee. The paper is asking the three-member committee to reconsider…
MONTREAL — Canada’s ruling rich and their government in Ottawa are calling on workers and our unions to support and collaborate in their trade war with Washington. But this class-collaborationist course is a deadly threat to the labor movement and…
