Prison authorities at the Lower Buckeye Jail in Phoenix — the largest detention facility in Arizona — banned the Nov. 11, 2024, issue of the Militant. The Militant is appealing the ruling, asking supporters of civil liberties and prisoners’ political…
China’s state capitalist rulers are suffering through a yearslong slowdown in economic growth, at the same time that they confront mounting competition with rival capitalist powers, above all, Washington. As economic conditions worsen, millions of working people in China are…
MIAMI — Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association are discussing a tentative contract agreement reached Jan. 8 between the union and East and Gulf Coast port bosses, following negotiations. Dockworkers are voting on the contract as the Militant goes to…
Dynamics of the Cuban Revolution: A Marxist Appreciation by Joseph Hansen is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. Hansen, a leader of the Socialist Workers Party, traveled to Cuba in 1960 with SWP presidential candidate Farrell Dobbs.…
Millions of working people are being drawn into world politics today amid the deepening crisis shaking the imperialist system. It has led to trade and military conflicts between rival ruling classes and their governments; Moscow’s drive to subjugate the Ukrainian…
CHICAGO — The 67th annual meeting of the African Studies Association here brought together over 1,600 academics, authors and others Dec. 12-14. Many participants came from Africa. Over 350 panel discussions covered politics, economic underdevelopment and other topics. An exhibition…
January 17, 2000 Leading up to the new millennium, Washington issued a number of “worldwide terrorism warnings” as it beefed up the cops at its border. In the name of combating “Islamic terrorism,” the U.S. rulers show utter contempt for…
LOS ANGELES — After many meetings in recent months, the Los Angeles City Council voted Dec. 11 to increase the minimum wage for more than 23,000 workers in the sizable tourism industry here to $30 an hour by July 2028.…
In Militant issue no. 1, the article, “Culture flourishes in Ukraine while artists, actors are jailed in Russia,” should have said that “Three Comrades,” a play by Yevhen Nyshchuk, was adapted from Erich Maria Remarque’s post-World War I novel of…
LAS VEGAS — “Give us the same as the other hotels,” pickets chanted in front of Virgin Hotels Las Vegas Jan. 6. Some 700 members of Culinary Workers Union Local 226 — guest-room attendants, cocktail and food servers, porters, bellmen,…
