25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024

April 12, 1999 ATLANTA — Cuban youth leaders Luis Ernesto Morejón and Itamys García Villar spoke to some 325 students, farmers, and workers during their visit to Georgia. This was the youths’ first stop on a seven-city tour. Both are…



Correction

Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024

A sentence in the article “Roots of advances for Cuban women are in our revolution,” in Militant issue no. 13 got garbled. It should have read, “The panelists addressed other social questions that affect women.”


SWP takes Fruit campaign to workers across the US

Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024

Supporters of Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, are taking the party’s campaign to workers on their doorsteps, at union rallies and actions called to fight Jew-hatred. The campaign gets a hearing as working people face economic…



Biden says the economy’s great, workers face a different reality

Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024

President Joseph Biden and his liberal media “spin doctors,” desperate for ways to boost his lagging reelection campaign, are working overtime to pitch the U.S. economy in the most positive light. They insist inflation is falling, and job openings increasing…



Quebec lead workers united against company lockout

Vol. 88/No. 14 - April 8, 2024

SAINTE-CATHERINE, Quebec — “It’s clear the company is out to try to bust our union,” Steve Nault, president of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) local at Terrapure here, told the Militant on their picket line March 20. “They…


Unions in Twin Cities build a coalition, take on boss attacks

Vol. 88/No. 13 - April 1, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS — Five days of strikes and labor actions have culminated in a number of new contract agreements in the Twin Cities area, after a coalition of unions formed last October organized coordinated actions in March. Workers who clean office…


‘Roots of advances for Cuban women are in our revolution’

Vol. 88/No. 13 - April 1, 2024

NEW YORK— “The tremendous advances for women in Cuba have their roots in the revolution that triumphed on Jan. 1, 1959,” Osmayda Hernández said at a March 16 meeting here. Hernández, a member of the national leadership of the Federation…