The deepening worldwide capitalist economic crisis is bearing down hard on the working class, with decent jobs in the U.S. increasingly hard to find and prices for basic necessities continuing to rise, from groceries to electricity, housing, health care, child…
WHITING, Ind. — One week after being locked out at the British Petroleum’s refinery here, United Steelworkers Local 7-1 stands strong, committed to fighting against BP’s union-busting takeaway contract offer. Over 800 union members were locked out March 19 after…
“We are getting very close to meeting our objectives” and ending the fighting, President Donald Trump claimed March 20, but then ordered another 2,500 Marines to the Middle East. This is on top of the 2,500 Marines sent the week…
Havana: Cuba’s sovereignty is not up for negotiation In the last three months President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have been either talking about a “friendly takeover” of Cuba, or that they’re “ready to bomb and destroy”…
There are countless examples of how workers and farmers in Cuba are coming together to organize to meet the brutal effects of Washington’s stepped-up economic war and defend the gains of their socialist revolution. They are doing it with the…
James Harris, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for delegate to Congress from Washington, D.C., brought solidarity to the fight of Haitian immigrants at a March 17 press conference and rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court. The action was organized in…
FRESNO, Calif. — Over 100 farmworkers, members of the United Farm Workers union, and supporters from throughout the Central Valley converged on the federal courthouse here March 18 to demand an end to stiff wage cuts imposed by the government…
Support is growing for the fight to overturn prison bans on six issues of the Militant by Florida officials. Issues nos. 4, 5 and 6 were impounded at the Taylor Correctional Institution in Perry, Florida. Officials targeted front-page articles in…
GREELEY, Colo. — Going into their second week on strike, hundreds of members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 picketed outside the giant JBS meatpacking plant here March 24. Fed up with unsafe and abusive conditions in the…
