The shopping list is radioed, as it is every morning. Today it’s for oatmeal cookies, smoked bacon, mayonnaise, vegetables and fruit, coffee, bread, some sandwiches. “Copy that,” the supply chief replies. The “customers” are Ukrainian soldiers in front-line trenches, ordering…
February 26, 2001 The entire labor movement has a stake in supporting efforts by the coal miners to defend and extend black lung benefits. It is part of the fight for human dignity, the right to a safe workplace, and…
FEB. 25 — The Cuban government announced this afternoon that a speedboat registered in Florida approached their coast near Corralillo, in Villa Clara province. When a Cuban border guard boat approached to ask for identification, those on the U.S. boat…
A Call to Action by the Socialist Workers Party The following statement was released February 7, 2026, by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, on behalf of the party’s National Committee. There’s a pressing need today for…
HAVANA — A team of Militant correspondents arrived here Feb. 6 to report on the response of the Cuban people and their government to the sharp escalation in the U.S. rulers’ economic war against them. Combined with direct military threats,…
Members of the Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom are urging working people to join them in organizing and building protests against Washington’s stepped-up oil blockade and threats of worse against Cuba. They’re…
MINNEAPOLIS — Despite the government’s “drawdown” removing 700 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, 2,000 of them remain in Minnesota. They’re conducting raids and arrests of immigrant workers and increasingly of protesters who obstruct their operations. At the same time,…
SAN FRANCISCO — After going on strike Feb 9, teachers here have set up picket lines at schools across the city and held giant rallies to press their demands. This is the first teachers strike in San Francisco in 47…
Merchants of the Grand Bazaar of Tehran have called for nationwide actions Feb. 17, 18 and 19 to commemorate the thousands massacred across Iran by the reactionary capitalist regime during the recent wave of protests against its rule. Families in…
MANCHESTER, England — “The Communist League stands in the front lines of battles by working people,” Hugo Wils, the CL’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton parliamentary by-election said. He was talking with seven workers, originally from Pakistan, at a…
