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Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, fund March 9-May 7 (week 3)

Calif. nurses protest understaffing

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Hundreds of nurses and supporters picketed outside the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center here April 2, the first day of a three-day strike by over 3,000 members of the Registered Nurses Professional Association at three county…

Student newspaper ‘Corsair’ interviews Rachele Fruit

Bunker King goes to Santa Monica College and is an editor at the Corsair, the student newspaper. He attended the March 30 talk by Rachele Fruit, SWP candidate for president, and interviewed her afterwards. These were some of the exchanges,…

Minn. Democrats attack third party ballot rights

MINNEAPOLIS — A judge here March 20 ruled in favor of a suit filed by the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party that will revoke the major-party status of the Legal Marijuana Now Party, the last political party, other than the Democrats and Republicans,…

Leeds students take stand against Jew-hatred in UK

LEEDS, England — “Jewish students have had enough,” Emma Levy, president of the Jewish Society at the University of Leeds, told several hundred students at a “Stand Against Antisemitism” vigil here March 1. It was called in response to mounting…

Endorse Rachele Fruit for president!

We ask readers of the Militant to endorse the campaign of Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president! Join efforts to win others to do so. Joseph Biden and Donald Trump garner support among their class, the capitalist…

Farmers in UK protest rising production costs

LONDON — With signs reading “Stop killing farming” and “No farmers, no food, no future,” up to 100 tractors descended on Parliament Square here March 25. Organized by the recently established Fairness for Farmers of Kent, the protest was the…

25, 50 and 75 years ago

April 19, 1999 NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia — Nearly 9,000 workers, most of them members of United Steelworkers of America Local 8888, went on strike against the largest U.S. military shipyard here April 5. Night shift workers who came out of…

Holocaust Memorial in Glen Cove

On the North Shore of Long Island, New York, is a museum well worth a visit. The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center in Glen Cove offers seven galleries of photos, documents, videos and displays, as well as a library and…

‘Workers are in a mood to fight’
Rachele Fruit for US president
The working-class alternative to Biden-Trump

Rachele Fruit: ‘The SWP points the way forward for the working class’ BY BERNIE SENTER LOS ANGELES — “I am running for the office of president of the United States — the highest executive office of the most powerful and…