The U.S. Supreme Court ruled May 5 to block the state of Oklahoma from executing death row inmate Richard Glossip. The execution had been scheduled for May 18 after the state’s Pardon and Parole Board voted 2-2 on his appeal…
ABBOTSFORD, British Columbia — “Every day we’re out we become more determined. The support we get on cold wet days means a lot to us,” picket organizer Elizabeth Roux told more than 100 striking members of Canadian Union of Public…
Working people in East Palestine, Ohio, continue to fight to get the truth from the rail bosses and Environmental Protection Agency representatives who claim everything is safe now after the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern derailment and release of highly toxic…
HAVANA — Amid preparations by working people across Cuba to celebrate May 1, International Workers Day, a special event was held here to discuss a new book by Pathfinder Press, The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The…
“We lost money for nearly two years solid,” Roy Gallie, chairperson of the Irish Farmers’ Association Pigs Committee, told the Militant by phone April 16. Last year he helped organize protests at retailers to highlight the fact that prices paid…
With its invading forces unable to overcome staunch Ukrainian resistance, Moscow resumed long-range airstrikes aimed at doing maximum damage to civilians, their homes and work sites in Ukraine at the end of April. Working people there are at the center…
DIMMITT, Texas — A fire quickly spread through the giant South Fork Dairy structure, a few miles outside of town here, killing some 18,000 cows and critically injuring a worker April 10. A town of 4,200, Dimmitt is the seat…
NEW YORK — International Workers Day marches and protests across the United States and in the U.S. colony of Puerto Rico May 1 — like similar actions all over the world — attracted working people and youth looking for ways…
On April 26, 1986 — 37 years ago — the people of Ukraine bore the brunt of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, the explosion, fire and meltdown at the Chernobyl power plant. It was a catastrophe denied by Soviet authorities…
Statement by Seth Galinsky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City Council, May 3. There are more openings to strengthen our unions today, to join labor and working-class struggles and to build solidarity. Working people need to be prepared…
