Statement by Laura Garza, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from California, July 5. The confidence and determination shown by striking Los Angeles hotel workers is a boost to the entire labor movement. Thousands-strong, UNITE HERE Local 11 members…
Russian President Vladimir Putin is purging his government and the military of supporters of the Wagner mercenary forces after their June 24 “march for freedom” on Moscow. While he seeks to refortify his regime he continues to lose ground in…
NEW YORK — Working people here are once again facing rising rents as the city’s Rent Guidelines Board voted June 21 to increase rents by the highest amount in a decade on some 1 million rent-stabilized apartments. Rents for a…
Under the impact of rising prices coupled with declining production and trade worldwide, the capitalist economic crisis is deepening in Europe. And this feeds sharpening strains among the 27 governments that comprise the European Union as well as competition with…
Protests and rioting have gripped the Paris suburb of Nanterre, home to tens of thousands of Arabs, Africans and other Muslims, since cops killed Nahel Merzouk, a teenager from the area, June 27. Merzouk came from an Algerian and Moroccan…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — “This strike is about respect,” Tonya Walker, a 21-year employee at International Flavors and Fragrances and member of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 390G, told the Militant on the picket line here. “We were…
MONTREAL — Some 7,400 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada set up picket lines, halting maritime traffic at over 30 ports on Canada’s west coast July 1. Bosses are demanding the government intervene and impose back-to-work legislation…
MIAMI — “Defending and extending freedoms protected by the U.S. Constitution is at the center of class struggle today,” was the topic at a lively panel discussion here at the Militant Labor Forum July 1, attended by 20 people. The…
In June 1979 the Supreme Court upheld a contract negotiated by the United Steelworkers of America with Kaiser Aluminum. In order to upgrade employment for those targeted by longstanding discrimination, the contract had established a quota that one-half of the…
The administration of President Joseph Biden — along with the Wall Street Journal — is stepping up a drumbeat of baseless allegations that the Cuban government has teamed up with Beijing to set up a spy station in Cuba. Trying…
