Growing numbers in Iran — including prisoners, retirees and unionists — are demanding an end to the death penalty. “Execution is a medieval and irreversible sentence that can never improve the conditions of society,” Reza Sadeghi wrote July 25 on…
Out Now! A Participant’s Account of the Movement in the U.S. Against the Vietnam War by Fred Halstead is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. As the Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate in 1968, Halstead, who had…
As we go to press, the Militant is still waiting information from the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee on the outcome of its July 18 hearing. On the agenda was the paper’s appeal of the banning of Militant…
July marks the 90th anniversary of the 1934 Teamsters strikes in Minneapolis that won union recognition for General Drivers Local 574 and paved the way for successful union battles throughout that city and region. The lessons of this fight, led…
After brutally suppressing political protests against his war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin is now intensifying his crackdown on culture and artistic creativity. “Censorship and repression is now at levels resembling those in the post-Stalin years of the later…
MINNEAPOLIS — Rachele Fruit, the SWP candidate for president, brought solidarity to striking park workers here, members of the Laborers’ International Union of North America, at Minnehaha Falls park July 21. The strike is in its third week as the…
TRENTON, N.J. — Supporters of Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, filed 1,642 signatures, more than twice the requirement, to get on the ballot in New Jersey at the state Division of Elections in Trenton July 19.…
Some 45,000 dockworkers, members of the International Longshoremen’s Association who work at ports from Maine to Texas, are preparing to hit the streets Oct. 1 if a new contract isn’t in place. It’s one of three sizable labor battles shaping…
The U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution of death-row inmate Ruben Gutierrez July 16, just 20 minutes before he would have been put to death at the Huntsville, Texas, state penitentiary. When he got the news, Gutierrez “turned to the…
August 2, 1999 NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Chants of “No Justice No Peace!” and “What Do We Want? A Contract! When Do We Want It? Now!” broke out as Steelworkers on strike at Newport News Shipbuilding and locked out at…
