As part of celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Fidel Castro, the central leader of Cuba’s socialist revolution, the Militant is printing excerpts of his political writings over the coming year. This one is from The Second Declaration…
ATLANTA — “My family comes from Mexico and I can see every day how poorly immigrant workers like my parents are treated in this country,” Tri-Cities High School student Santiago Ozuna, 16, told Socialist Workers Party members Lisa Potash and…
February 12, 2001 Over the past few months Russian president Vladimir Putin has taken measures to increase Russia’s leverage over neighboring countries, particularly Georgia and Ukraine, which were once republics of the former Soviet Union. Russia’s state-owned gas companies shut…
MANCHESTER, England — “The Communist League explains that the only way to prevent another world war and the mounting devastation workers face, is for the working class to take political power,” Hugo Wils, the CL’s candidate in the Gorton and…
The U.S. imperialist rulers regard the state-capitalist regime in Beijing as the main threat to their ebbing control of the “world order.” Washington is pushing back Beijing’s influence in the Western Hemisphere, trying to isolate it elsewhere and putting together…
The systematic massacre of 10,000 or more protesters by Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, police and paramilitary thugs cut short the wave of demonstrations that was spreading across Iran. But far from demoralizing working people, the repression deepened their anger…
NEW YORK — “We’ve had lots of support on the picket line, in spite of the bitter cold weather,” a nurse in the cardiac-surgical unit told the Militant on the picket line in front of Mount Sinai Hospital Jan. 21.…
LOS ANGELES — The strike by some 31,000 Kaiser nurses and other health care workers, members of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, in California and Hawaii entered its second week Feb. 2. The central issue…
Growing numbers of workers are looking for the way to bring an end to today’s wars and prevent even more deadly conflicts. Workers’ desire to live in peace is founded on the fact the working class has no interest in…
February 5, 2001 LUTON, England — Ten thousand working people marched here Jan. 20 to protest the decision by General Motors to cut 10,000 jobs at plants across North America and Europe. Workers reported plans for plant-gate demonstrations in Portugal,…
