HOOPESTON, Ill. — “We stuck together and stood strong and now we’re more united than we were before,” Beatrice Marmolejo told the Militant. She’s a forklift driver at Teasdale Latin Foods here, where 65 members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers…
LONDON — Communist League campaigners joined tens of thousands at a national march called by the Campaign Against Antisemitism here Sept. 7 to protest the sharp rise in Jew-hating attacks since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, pogrom. “I agree with that,”…
The Special Treatment Unit at Avenel, New Jersey, sounds like a medical center. In fact it’s a prison facility where people are held indefinitely and without trial, after having already completed their full prison sentences on charges of rape and…
September 18, 2000 WASHINGTON — They came from cities and towns around the country. Thousands of people converged on the nation’s capital August 26 to demand an end to cop brutality and harassment. The march, which drew between 10,000 and…
NEW YORK — “Increasing numbers of working people in the U.S. and worldwide can see that the imperialist ruling classes of the world are steadily marching humanity toward World War III, with everything that means in the age of nuclear…
The Israeli government is implementing its battle plans to defeat and disarm Hamas in Gaza. Decisively defeating Hamas is necessary to prevent the Nazi-like group from launching more pogroms. It will also remove Hamas’ boot from the neck of the…
Washington is deploying a significant naval and military armada, the U.S. rulers’ latest move in its longstanding efforts to violate the sovereignty of Venezuela and overthrow its president, Nicolás Maduro. It is also a show of force aimed at intimidating…
CHICAGO — “This is my first time on strike, and I’m learning a lot,” Linne Boyd, right, a member of Teamsters Local 705 at Mauser Packaging Solutions, told David Rosenfeld, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate, and SWP member…
Opposition to the firing, forced retirement or suspension by the government of at least 17 teachers in Iran’s Kurdish region is winning broad support among toilers in Iran and strengthening the fight against the regime’s crackdown on political rights. The…
Teamster Power by Farrell Dobbs is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. Dobbs tells the story of how members of Teamsters Local 574 in Minneapolis wielded the union power they forged through three victorious 1934 strikes. With…
