The U.S. rulers are stepping up their six-decades-long assault on Cuba, in retaliation for working people, led by Fidel Castro, making a socialist revolution there and setting an example for toilers everywhere. Washington is enforcing an oil blockade, threatening to…
GREELEY, Colo. — “JBS makes billions off our broken bodies. To them we are not worth as much as the beef going down the line,” John Trimble told the Militant. The 69-year-old Trimble says he has worked at the plant…
GREELEY, Colo. — Members of the Socialist Workers Party and Communist League in Canada have spent a few weeks here in late March and early April to support and learn from the strike by 3,800 workers, members of United Food…
In a victory for readers of the Militant behind bars and all defenders of free speech and prisoners’ rights, the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee informed the paper April 1 that it had overturned the impoundment by prison…
HAMMOND, Ind. — Hundreds of members of the United Steelworkers union, including oil refinery workers locked out by British Petroleum, and members of other unions in this area rallied outside of the main office of the Northern Indiana Public Service…
MONTREAL — Newly declassified Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Service files have confirmed that in the 1960s and ’70s the Canadian rulers’ top spy outfit systematically infiltrated and sought to disrupt Indigenous and other political groups. The RCMP program “was…
The 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, the 1986 explosion and fire destroying reactor No. 4 of the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine, is April 26. But Moscow’s over-four-year-long war attempting to seize that sovereign country risks…
UNION CITY, N.J. — Socialist Workers Party members are winning support to put the party’s candidates, Joanne Kuniansky for U.S. Senate and Craig Honts for U.S. Congress, on the ballot in New Jersey. Many workers are pleased to sign up…
As part of a brutal war between gangs and vigilante forces in Haiti, some 70 people were killed days before a United Nations-backed peacekeeping force began arriving, supposedly to quell gang violence. Intervention by an earlier U.N.-supported mission had utterly…
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Joan Paltrineri, a member of the Socialist Workers Party for nearly 30 years, from the early 1970s to late ’90s, died Feb. 24, after battling the effects of severe strokes over the past several years. Some 55…
