JERSEY CITY, N.J. — A lively march and rally demanding independence for Puerto Rico drew some 60 people to City Hall here Aug. 29. “Puerto Rico has been occupied illegally by the U.S. for 128 years,” Jason Cruz, president of…
In a blow to constitutional rights, a U.S. Court of Appeals in Florida Aug. 5 upheld the government’s use of the notorious Foreign Agents Registration Act, adopted in 1938 as part of the U.S. rulers’ drive to enter the second…
ROCKVILLE, Md. — Nearly 100 striking Teamsters, members of Local 639, and their supporters, held a lively rally outside of Verbal Beginnings here Aug. 27. “Who are we?” shouted one striker, “Teamsters!” the pickets yelled back. Verbal Beginnings is a…
September 10, 2001 The following message by Puerto Rican independence fighter Rafael Cancel Miranda was sent to the participants in the World Festival of Youth and Students held in Algeria. Cancel Miranda spent over a quarter-century in U.S. prisons. Since…
SEATTLE — Over 100 unionists joined the striking UNITE HERE Local 8 workers on their picket line in front of the Embassy Suites Hotel Aug. 20. “We are fighting for ourselves, but also because if we win this strike it…
HAYWARD, Calif. — Over 350 Teamster ready-mix concrete drivers at CalPortland in northern California ended a two-week strike Aug. 20, overwhelmingly ratifying a one-year contract. “I feel really good about it,” driver Rudy Gomez told the Militant. “They were trying…
BY KATY LEROUGETEL, MARTÍN KOPPEL AND CLAUDIA KAISER-LENOIR HAVANA — A team of Militant correspondents from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom was here in early August to report on the brutal impact of Washington’s relentless aggression against…
While Washington tightens its brutal economic blockade of Iran, Tehran is retaliating with attacks on commercial ships near the Strait of Hormuz and threatening to strike oil facilities and other economic and military sites of U.S. allies in the Middle…
PHILADELPHIA — Some 35 truck drivers, members of Teamsters Local 500, have been on strike, picketing 24 hours a day, at Quaker Valley Foods here since Aug. 5. The company distributes meat, deli and specialty foods along the East Coast.…
The Militant urges its readers to stand side by side with the Cuban people against Washington’s oil blockade, expanding sanctions and threats of invasion! Workers and our unions should demand the unconditional end of the U.S. rulers’ decades-long economic and…
