CHICAGO — Members and supporters of the Socialist Workers Party have stepped up campaigning for the party’s candidate for mayor, Ilona Gersh. They’re taking the campaign to fellow workers on their doorsteps, at factory gates and at protests called to…
The FBI will “never conduct investigative activities or open an investigation based solely on First Amendment protected activity,” the spy agency claimed as it shut down plans by its office in Richmond, Virginia, to launch a new spy operation aimed…
Feb. 24 marks one year since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine, expecting a rapid victory. Instead, he has run into battlefield reversals from Kyiv and Kharkiv to Kherson at the hands of working people in Ukraine…
NEW YORK — “I’m very proud of what we accomplished,” Laura Harshberger, a senior production editor and chair of the union bargaining unit at HarperCollins Publishers, told the Militant. The more than 200 hourly workers — in editorial, sales, publicity,…
SAN FRANCISCO — International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 shut down the ports of Oakland and San Francisco Feb. 16, part of international protests demanding freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal. Framed up on charges of killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel…
MONTREAL — Beverly Bernardo, Communist League candidate in Montreal’s provincial by-election in the Saint-Henri–Sainte-Anne riding, turned in all the petitions and was declared on the ballot Feb. 20 for the Quebec National Assembly. Over the February 18-19 weekend, more than…
March 9, 1998 NEW YORK — The theme of “100 Years of Struggle Against U.S. Imperialism: Africa, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines” drew 200 here Feb. 19. Félix Wilson, first secretary of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, explained that…
The Militant is winning broad support in its fight to overturn the ban on a recent issue of the socialist newsweekly by Blackwater River Correctional Facility officials in Florida. The privately run prison banned issue no. 4 on Feb. 1,…
The article “Working People in Ukraine Fight New War Moves from Moscow,” in issue no. 8 should have said Transnistria is an enclave in eastern Moldova, not western Moldova.
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Talking to residents here and in nearby areas, Militant worker-correspondents find they continue to feel frustrated and angry about the lack of information and help they are getting since the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern derailment here.…
