PORTLAND, Ore. — After a six-week strike, 5,000 nurses at eight Providence hospitals across the state approved new contracts Feb. 24, ending what the Oregon Nurses Association described as the largest health care workers strike in state history. Calling the…
About 200 supporters of Hamas and fellow Jew-hating allies provocatively targeted an event in the heavily Jewish Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, Feb. 18, but got an unexpected surprise. They were outnumbered by opponents of Jew-hatred. The anti-Jewish…
On Feb. 14, the Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialists sent revolutionary greetings to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on the occasion of the country’s Feb. 16 national holiday. “Washington’s recent docking at the Port of Busan on the…
In Defense of Marxism by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Trotsky, a central leader of the Russian Revolution and the Communist International under V.I. Lenin, fought in the 1930s to maintain Lenin’s proletarian…
As more facts come out on Hamas’ gruesome torture of the hostages it kidnapped in its Oct. 7, 2023, pogrom and the murder by strangulation of the two Bibas children, more working people in Israel and around the world can…
March 6, 2000 This past week the government arrested Mariano Faget, an official of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Miami, and charged him with espionage on behalf of the Cuban government. They then demanded Cuban diplomat José Imperatori at…
NEW YORK — At a spirited meeting here Feb. 23, the Socialist Workers Party launched its campaign for mayor, announcing Paul Mailhot as its candidate. Mailhot is the organizer of the SWP’s New York City branch. The launching capped a…
February 24 marks the opening of the fourth year of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale war against the people of Ukraine. Ten days before, a drone strike, which Kyiv blamed on Moscow, hit the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant in…
Issue no. 2 of the Militant, dated Jan. 20, 2025, has been banned at Santa Rosa Correctional Institution in Milton, Florida. A letter sent to the paper from a subscriber there said it “was impounded for no reason.” He attached…
FORT WORTH, Texas — Some 45 members of Teamsters Local 745 set up strike picket lines at the Hertz car rental facility at the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport Jan. 18 after the company refused to offer a new contract…
