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Correction

In Militant  issue no. 17, the headline on page 6 was misspelled. It should have read “Back Ukraine independence fight!”

Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, fund

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Cuban Embassy official speaks in L.A., protests US gov’t sanctions

LOS ANGELES — Alejandro García del Toro, deputy chief of the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C., and Javier Levy Hernández, a first secretary there, spoke to a community meeting of 75 people at the International Association of Machinists union hall…

Back public workers on strike all across Canada

Workers fighting for pay raise to offset inflation

MONTREAL — In one of the largest labor actions in Canada in decades, more than 155,000 federal government workers, members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, set up picket lines from one end of the country to the other…

Nurses and teachers in U.K. set strike action over pay

MANCHESTER, England — Nurses, members of the Royal College of Nursing union, who before last December had never gone on strike in their 106-year history, voted April 14 to reject the government’s most recent pay offer, against their national officers’…

East Palestine working people fight for control over their lives

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Workers, farmers and small-business people here continue to press for action to clean up the area and protect their health after the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment, fire and burn-off of toxic vinyl chloride. They’re…

Drop all charges filed against the African People’s Socialist Party!

Striking a serious blow at constitutional protections, Department of Justice prosecutors got a federal grand jury in Florida April 18 to indict three members of the African People’s Socialist Party and Uhuru Movement on trumped-up charges of being “foreign agents.”…

Back Ukraine independence! Moscow out of all of Ukraine

As the first large-scale war in Europe since World War II grinds on, tensions between the world’s major capitalist powers grow and the world order imposed by Washington after the second imperialist slaughter is being shaken. At the same time…

Hey, they shrunk the Doritos, and Twinkies, and …

As food prices keep rising, many companies are seeking to maximize profits through “shrinkflation,” which some workers call “skimpflation,” where they fiddle with the packaging and you end up paying the same price but get less. Bosses have been doing…

Join campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books

“None of the politicians care about working-class people,” office worker Bernadette Keating told Communist League member Ögmundur Jónsson when he knocked on her door in Manchester, England, April 23. “Not just the government, but the others as well. We need…