July 19, 1999 The following statement was issued by the Communist League in Canada. The labor movement across Canada must transform the huge sympathy for the 47,500 Quebec nurses into actions in the streets. We must call for repeal of…
This month marks the 77th anniversary since thousands of survivors of the Holocaust boarded a ship in France, soon renamed Exodus 1947, in an attempt to rebuild their lives in Palestine. From the get-go the ship was trailed, then brutally…
“I learned that Florida prison officials have banned an issue of the Militant newspaper in violation of inmates’ constitutional rights and the right of the Militant to reach its subscribers,” Yecenia Arango, assistant branch manager of the St. Louis County…
MINNEAPOLIS — “If we fight, we win!” 100 members, family and supporters of Laborers’ Local 363 chanted as they rallied at the Labor Center here July 4. The union, which represents over 300 workers who take care of the park…
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. — On a hot, muggy afternoon July 9, Dennis Richter, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, joined campaigners here outside a Hannaford supermarket. He met Robert Gray, a telephone lineman from Happy Valley, Pennsylvania, who…
Mexico has surpassed China as the number one source of goods imported by the United States. The sharpening tensions between Washington and Beijing, as well as the drive by capitalist bosses to tap sources of goods closer to their main…
Tens of thousands of Kenyans took to the streets last month to protest government moves to raise taxes to meet growing debts to foreign lenders and to appease the International Monetary Fund. Capitalist rulers throughout Africa face the same crisis. …
FORT WORTH, Texas — The family of Anthony Johnson Jr. held a press conference July 2 announcing they had won an important victory with the June 25 indictment of two Tarrant County jailers for the murder of their son. Johnson,…
On July 2 the U.S. federal Parole Commission once again denied Leonard Peltier’s request for parole. The hearing, the first in over a decade, took place June 10. Peltier, a leader of the American Indian Movement, has been in federal…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Socialist Workers Party leaders John Benson and Susan LaMont, above, filed to put the party’s presidential ticket — Rachele Fruit for president and Dennis Richter for vice president — on the ballot July 8. They turned in…
