March 5, 2001 In his first major military action as president, George Bush ordered a bombing attack on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq’s capital city. Bush described the raid as “routine.” The president stated, “Our intention is to make sure…
The following statement was released March 1, 2026, by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, on behalf of the party’s National Committee. Working people in the United States, the Middle East, and the world over must oppose…
Cuban people, gov’t organize to defend their revolution Since late January, when Washington imposed a blockade on Cuba’s access to imported oil, the U.S. rulers have stepped up their drive to deal further economic and political blows to the Cuban…
As Washington’s blockade of the Cuban people intensifies, members of the Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom are campaigning to get out the truth about, and defend, Cuba’s socialist revolution. They’re organizing public…
LOS ANGELES — The strike by some 31,000 members of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals at hospitals and clinics in California and Hawaii entered its fourth week Feb. 16. Spirited strike lines of nurses and…
MINNEAPOLIS — Hundreds gathered in South Minneapolis Feb. 16 for a march and rally sponsored by the Minnesota AFL-CIO to protest the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and border control agencies’ ongoing arrests and brutality here. Speakers urged people to keep…
Over 3,800 meatpacking workers, members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 at JBS in Greeley, Colorado, voted by almost 99% Feb. 4 to authorize a strike, but a strike deadline has not been set. They are fed up…
Prison authorities at the Taylor Correctional Institution in Perry, Florida, have now impounded three consecutive issues of the Militant, dated Feb. 2, Feb. 9 and Feb. 16. They object to three lead articles in each issue, which report on the…
MANCHESTER, England — “From what I know Cuba won’t break so easily as Venezuela,” David Lawrence, a gateline ticket checker at Manchester Piccadilly rail station, told Hugo Wils. Wils is the Communist League candidate in the parliamentary by-election for the…
Tens of thousands protested across Iran Feb. 17-18 to mark the 40-day commemoration of the massacre of more than 7,000 protesters at the hands of the bourgeois clerical regime. “This flower that was cut down has become a gift to…
