NEW YORK — Thousands of apartment building workers, members of 32BJ Service Employees International Union, turned out for a boisterous strike-vote rally in the Upper East Side of Manhattan April 15. By a large show of hands they authorized the…
Joining the Militant’s writing staff of full-time volunteers is Leslie Dork, a member of the Socialist Workers Party branch in Northern New Jersey. Dork joined the Young Socialist Alliance in 1970 in Cleveland, and the party later that year. She…
Since March 2 Israel has launched airstrikes and ground attacks dealing blows to Hezbollah, after the Tehran-backed group unleashed missiles from Lebanon at civilian populations in Israel. Like its patrons in Tehran, and fellow “axis of resistance” forces in Iraq,…
April 16, 2001 HARTFORD, Conn. — “The Cuban people are carrying out many projects to advance our cultural level and develop higher human values,” Cuban youth leader Yanelis Martínez told a meeting at the University of Hartford here. Martínez and…
The shaky two-week ceasefire reached by Washington and Tehran April 7 is a further step along the course pursued by the U.S. rulers to impose a “Pax Americana” across the Middle East. The same thing was true of the shaky…
MONTREAL — “We’re determined to fight to win a living wage, safe working conditions and livable work schedules,” Mathieu Gagnon, secretary of the United Grocers Workers Union and picket captain since the workers went on strike March 30, told the…
The U.S. rulers are stepping up their six-decades-long assault on Cuba, in retaliation for working people, led by Fidel Castro, making a socialist revolution there and setting an example for toilers everywhere. Washington is enforcing an oil blockade, threatening to…
PLESSISVILLE, Quebec — “The biggest issue in our strike is to be treated with respect. They don’t treat us like human beings,” Alain Martineau, one of 100 United Steelworkers walking the picket line at Cooperative Citadelle’s maple syrup factory, told…
GREELEY, Colo. — “JBS makes billions off our broken bodies. To them we are not worth as much as the beef going down the line,” John Trimble told the Militant. The 69-year-old Trimble says he has worked at the plant…
