LOS ANGELES — “The way Kaiser operates they make consistency in patient care difficult. This impacts the sustainability and longevity of this kind of work. They steal your passion,” Yolando Centeno Raphael told the Militant at a Feb. 7 picket…
By a vote of 63,680 to 26,304, postal workers in the National Association of Letter Carriers soundly defeated a tentative three-year contract proposal that offered only a paltry 1.3% wage increase a year. The 200,000 workers, who are barred by…
Public protests took place in Cape Town and Pretoria Feb. 5 in solidarity with the immigrant gold miners killed by starvation as they were forced to stay for weeks in the deep underground gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa. Demanding…
President Donald Trump’s administration imposed stiff tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports to the U.S. Feb. 10, claiming the duties will defend jobs for workers in those and related industries and are in the interests of “all Americans.” In…
World renowned Russian opera singer Anna Netrebko performed before 450 people in a packed hotel ballroom in Palm Beach, Florida, Feb. 3. This was her first appearance on stage in the U.S. since Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine three…
Millions took to the streets in Syria celebrating the overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad dictatorship in December. Thousands were freed from jails, especially from the notorious Saydnaya Prison, known as the “Human Slaughterhouse,” where as many as 15,000 people were…
“Porcelain War,” a film by directors Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev. Showing in theaters now. In Ukrainian, with English and Russian subtitles. MINNEAPOLIS — I saw “Porcelain War,” a recent documentary film made in Ukraine, early in January. As a…
Pombo: A Man of Che’s Guerrilla: With Che Guevara in Bolivia, 1966-68 by Harry Villegas is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Villegas, known the world over as “Pombo,” the nom de guerre given him by revolutionary…
The increasingly unstable ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas leaves unresolved the key challenges facing Israel in securing its existence as a refuge from Jew-hatred and pogroms. Hamas, though weakened by Israeli blows over the last year, is taking…
President Donald Trump threatened to levy sizable tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico, seeking to achieve a political goal — to force their governments to send troops to more tightly secure their borders with the U.S., to cut down…
