FORT MORGAN, Colo. — Socialist Workers Party members and supporters and a member of the Communist League in Canada came here to bring solidarity to workers locked out by Cargill bosses and to prepare Militant coverage to tell the story…
Sky-high grocery prices, on top of the cost of gas and other necessities, are driving more working-class households into debt. To cover these expenses, increasing numbers are using their credit cards to pay for food. Last year over 34% of…
MARTINEZ, Calif. — Locked-out refinery workers at the Marathon refinery here got a boost this week when Union Pacific rail crews stopped delivering tallow, a main ingredient of the biofuel the company produces, into the facility. The members of United…
Fighting Racism in World War II: From the pages of the Militant is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August. It’s a week-by-week account from 1939 to 1945 of the efforts to advance the fight against Jim Crow…
SAN FRANCISCO — Forty-five members of UNITE HERE Local 2 at the Ghirardelli Chocolate store here, a popular tourist attraction, began a three-day strike July 30 against the bosses’ proposal to increase their healthcare costs. “Who’s gonna win? Local 2!”…
CINCINNATI — Ned Measel, a member of the Cincinnati branch and a long-time member of the Socialist Workers Party, died here Aug. 4, after a nearly yearlong battle with cancer and related complications. Measel joined the Young Socialist Alliance and…
EAGAN, Minn. — As part of nationwide actions sponsored by the American Postal Workers Union, some 40 people picketed and rallied outside the Postal Service Distribution Center here July 28. This was a joint protest organized by the APWU locals…
August 20, 2001 ALGIERS — The 15th World Festival of Youth and Students opened Aug. 8 here with some 6,000 delegates from over 100 countries around the world. At the opening ceremony delegates from each country marched into the stadium,…
CENTER CITY, Minn. — Members of the Minnesota Nurses Association secured their first contract at the Hazelden Betty Ford Rehab clinic here, after over a year of negotiations and a two-week strike that ended July 30. “Great news! We have…
MONTREAL — Members of the Communist League here and the Socialist Workers Party in the U.S. recently visited the picket lines of 550 striking Metro supermarket warehouse workers in Laval, just north of Montreal, and the 105 locked-out Siemens Electric…
