Something is different today. More workers are using their unions to fight the bosses’ relentless push to drive wages down, weaken health care and pensions, intensify already brutal work conditions and make workers’ schedules longer. This profit-driven offensive is eating…
July 28, 1998 FLINT, Michigan — As the strikes by 9,200 workers at two General Motors plants here enter their second month, the world’s largest auto maker is taking new steps to pressure the workers and their union, the United…
The article “Crises of child care, education, medical care hit workers hard” in Militant issue no. 25 incorrectly said medical debts make up about half of all outstanding debt in the country, reporting erroneous data from the New York Times.…
LOS ANGELES — A spirited rally of 2,000 hotel workers took place on July 4 in downtown Los Angeles. Another was held in Santa Monica. Two days earlier hundreds picketed in front of the Intercontinental Hotel here They chanted “Únete.…
Women and the Family by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. Trotsky, a leader of the Russian Revolution, describes how V.I. Lenin and the Bolsheviks led workers and peasants to fight to make and…
At the end of its term, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a number of decisions with important ramifications for the struggles of working people today. This week we reprint a section from Are They Rich Because They’re Smart? Class, Privilege,…
July 13, 1998 BRONX, New York — The New York cop accused of choking Anthony Baez to death in 1994 was convicted in Federal court of violating Baez’s civil rights. Free on bond and facing up to 10 years in…
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — The results of the June 22-23 National Transportation Safety Board hearings here are unmistakable. The Feb. 3 derailment of Norfolk Southern train 32N, subsequent toxic leaks and fires and current challenges facing working people throughout the…
ERIE, Pa. — The strike by 1,400 United Electrical Workers members against Wabtec Corp. here that began June 22 remains solid and spirited. Workers at the plant build rail locomotives. The two striking UE locals, production workers in Local 506…
Won over two-and-a-half centuries of bloody class struggle, key constitutional protections against government interference are under attack by President Joseph Biden’s administration. The push for even more prosecutions against former President Donald Trump, Biden’s main rival for the presidency, is…
