CORNWALL, Ontario — Over 9,000 workers at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario stores went on strike July 5, the first strike in their history. The members of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union had voted 97% to strike. Rallies…
LOS ANGELES — “We struck four times. Most important for me is that health care co-pays were held down,” Rosa Merino, a housekeeper at the Indigo hotel downtown here, told the Militant. She was part of a meeting of 150…
August 2, 1999 UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization held hearings here July 6 on Puerto Rico’s colonial status and approved a resolution supporting that Latin American nation’s right to self-determination, including independence. The committee heard…
SEATTLE — Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president of the United States, spoke out on the importance of the fight against Jew-hatred at a rally of some 100 people in defense of the existence of Israel July 14…
Thomas Matthew Crooks came within a hair’s breadth of assassinating Donald Trump when he opened fire with a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle at the Republican presidential candidate, who was speaking at a campaign rally of thousands in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13.…
The July 9-11 summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization held in Washington, D.C., highlighted the dangers of wider wars worldwide driven by deepening conflicts unfolding today between the world’s capitalist rulers. NATO was one of the institutions Washington put…
Both in Mexico, where production is rapidly expanding for export to the U.S., and in western Texas, one of the centers of oil fracking in the country, independent truckers are coming together to demand better pay, improved working conditions and…
The Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee informed Militant attorney David Goldstein it has scheduled an “initial review” July 18 on the paper’s appeal of the banning of Militant issue no. 17 by the Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone,…
NORDEN, Germany — A trip I made to Germany in early July brought home how alive the legacy of the Nazi Holocaust remains here, and its relevance given the rise of Jew-hatred worldwide, especially after Hamas’ Oct. 7 pogrom, which…
LONDON — “Our campaign starts from how to mobilize millions to defend the interests of working people,” Peter Clifford, the Communist League candidate for the Manchester Rusholme constituency told a candidates’ debate July 2, during the recent parliamentary elections. “The…
