Thousands took to the streets of San Juan Oct. 15 to demand the Puerto Rican government cancel the obscenely lucrative contract it gave Luma Energy, a privately owned U.S.-Canadian joint venture, to take over the U.S. colony’s electrical transmission and…
Groups organized and financed by the U.S. government have announced plans for public actions in several provinces in Cuba Nov. 15, pushing the slander that Cuba is a brutal “dictatorship.” Government officials denied the request for march permits, pointing out…
The military trial that began Oct. 11 of Blaise Compaore and 13 others for the Oct. 15, 1987, assassination of Thomas Sankara, then president of Burkina Faso, and the overthrow of the popular revolution he led, is increasing interest in…
“I wish I had a union at my workplace,” Stephen Hammond told Róger Calero when the Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of New York City knocked on his door in Middletown, New York, Oct. 17. “The little man has…
The first week of the international combined drive to expand the readership of the Militant and communist literature and raise funds for the Socialist Workers Party shows the growing interest in discussing how workers can win support for union struggles…
About 2,000 nurses, X-ray technicians and medical support workers who belong to Communications Workers of America Local 1133 went on strike at Mercy Hospital in Buffalo, New York, Oct. 1. Hundreds massed outside cheered as fellow workers on duty streamed…
NEW YORK — Five years after New York Police Sgt. Hugh Barry shot and killed 66-year-old Deborah Danner, who suffered from schizophrenia, the police department finally began an internal disciplinary trial Oct. 5 that could result in his firing. It…
Over 300 participants attended a Sept. 24 meeting in Iraq that called on Baghdad to establish full diplomatic relations with the state of Israel. Because Iraqi law bans calling for normalization with Israel, the meeting took place in Erbil, the…
The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the existing “global structural inequities and crisis,” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel told the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly Sept. 23. “The most vulnerable have been left unprotected,” while pharmaceutical companies have reaped…
Branches of the Socialist Workers Party across the U.S. are stepping up campaigning among working people as they begin the fall seven-week drive to sell 1,300 subscriptions to the Militant, 1,300 books by SWP and other revolutionary leaders, and to…
