July 30, 2001 A classified Pentagon strategy document elevates “homeland defense” into one of the four pillars of U.S. imperialist military doctrine and gives the military domestic duties in battling terrorism. The rulers know they must confront working people who…
Street protests, meetings press for end to US attacks NEW YORK — Fifty people held a spirited picket line July 11 demanding an end to Washington’s brutal oil blockade, other far-reaching sanctions and war threats against Cuba. The action, sponsored…
MONTREAL — After almost three months on strike, 550 workers at Metro supermarket’s fruit and vegetable warehouse in Laval, its drivers at the warehouse in Rivieres-des-Prairies, and its office workers at its headquarters in Montreal rejected the company’s latest proposal…
“Against Cuba, the United States government is waging a multidimensional, unconventional war that has lasted for almost seven decades and has become more brutal and ruthless in the last seven months,” Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla told a special…
CHICAGO — “We want a union, we want respect,” Ernesto Patino told the Militant on the strike picket line outside Open Kitchens here July 6. “And we need a raise. We have to take care of our families and pay…
AS WE GO TO PRESS … Six days after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, ICE forces chased and then killed 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero, originally from Colombia, as he left his home…
EMERYVILLE, Calif. — Workers fighting for a contract at the Hilton Garden Inn here organized a spirited picket and rally July 9, joined by supporters from other union hotels in the area. “We the workers at the Hilton Garden Inn…
Washington has carried out daily intense military strikes on hundreds of targets in Iran since July 11, after Tehran ignored President Donald Trump’s ultimatum for the regime to issue a public statement saying the Strait of Hormuz is open and…
MONTREAL — Eight months after a police officer shot and killed 15-year-old Nooran Rezayi in Longueuil on Sept. 21, 2025, setting off protests, police here announced not that charges were being lodged against an officer, but that criminal charges were…
CROCKETT, Calif. — “The longshoremen’s union has a long history fighting for the rights of sugar workers in Hawaii,” Chris West, president of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 142 from Honolulu, told a solidarity rally of over 200 people…
