August 20, 2001 ALGIERS — The 15th World Festival of Youth and Students opened Aug. 8 here with some 6,000 delegates from over 100 countries around the world. At the opening ceremony delegates from each country marched into the stadium,…
CINCINNATI — Ned Measel, a member of the Cincinnati branch and a long-time member of the Socialist Workers Party, died here Aug. 4, after a nearly yearlong battle with cancer and related complications. Measel joined the Young Socialist Alliance and…
Fighting Racism in World War II: From the pages of the Militant is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August. It’s a week-by-week account from 1939 to 1945 of the efforts to advance the fight against Jim Crow…
Sky-high grocery prices, on top of the cost of gas and other necessities, are driving more working-class households into debt. To cover these expenses, increasing numbers are using their credit cards to pay for food. Last year over 34% of…
FORT MORGAN, Colo. — Socialist Workers Party members and supporters and a member of the Communist League in Canada came here to bring solidarity to workers locked out by Cargill bosses and to prepare Militant coverage to tell the story…
The U.S. ruling class ordered the dropping of newly developed atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan 81 years ago this month, incinerating over 200,000 men, women and children. Today, as Washington and other imperialist powers…
BLUE ASH, Ohio — More than 500 people lined the street here Sunday, Aug. 2, protesting in front of the local Department of Homeland Security facility to demand extension of Temporary Protective Status for Haitian immigrants. Many Haitians in Springfield,…
The struggles Robert F. Williams led “to desegregate public facilities in the Jim Crow South, and to organize self-defense in the Black community against Ku Klux Klan night riders, made Monroe, North Carolina, in those years an emblem of resistance…
LINCOLN, Neb. — On July 9 Norfolk Southern conductor Scott Shoemaker, a 67-year-old experienced rail worker only weeks from retirement working out of Toledo, Ohio, was struck and killed while inspecting a passing train in East Chicago, Indiana. That 110-car…
President Donald Trump cancelled an attack on Iran set for Aug. 3, then immediately threatened to “decapitate” its rulers, hitting Iran harder than any strike “since World War II,” if Tehran does not give in to U.S. demands. At the…
