A Russian-flagged tanker with 730,000 barrels of crude arrived in Cuba March 31. After nearly three months of imposing an across-the-board oil blockade on Cuba, President Donald Trump said his administration had “no problem” with the delivery of the Russian…
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 members who work at the JBS flagship beef slaughterhouse in Greeley, Colorado, voted to ratify an improved new two-year contract by 93% April 12. UFCW Local 7 President Kim Cordova said in a…
LINCOLN, Neb. — Increasingly frequent derailments and deaths of rail workers on the job, along with less and less training for new hires, point to the need for a union fight to take control of conditions on the job. This…
Washington’s war on Iran and threats against Cuba’s socialist revolution, along with bosses’ attacks on workers and our unions, are at the center of discussions Socialist Workers Party members are having. The party is in the middle of an eight-week…
Support continues to build from unionists, civil liberties groups and others demanding authorities overturn the unconstitutional ban on six issues of the Militant in Florida prisons. On April 1 the paper received notice from the Florida Department of Corrections Literature…
Hundreds of Cuban women, answering a call by the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), demonstrated at the Mariana Grajales Park in Havana April 7 in defense of Cuba’s socialist revolution and to demand an end to Washington’s blockade against the…
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party, in power for 16 years and backed by both the Kremlin and the Donald Trump White House, were heavily defeated in elections April 12. Peter Magyar’s moderate conservative Tisza party won…
“Am I an American or Am I Not?” is the title of a traveling exhibit currently on display at the public library in Temecula, California. It has been showing in big cities like Boston and small ones like Clarksdale, Mississippi,…
NEW YORK — Thousands of apartment building workers, members of 32BJ Service Employees International Union, turned out for a boisterous strike-vote rally in the Upper East Side of Manhattan April 15. By a large show of hands they authorized the…
Joining the Militant’s writing staff of full-time volunteers is Leslie Dork, a member of the Socialist Workers Party branch in Northern New Jersey. Dork joined the Young Socialist Alliance in 1970 in Cleveland, and the party later that year. She…
