Celia Pugh: 50-year builder of communist movement in the UK

Vol. 87/No. 11 - March 20, 2023

LONDON — Celia Pugh, a 50-year veteran of the communist movement, died March 4 after a long illness. She was 70. Pugh was a founding member of the Communist League in 1988 and served on its Central Committee. She joined…


Join campaign to win readers, get out books, fund ‘Militant’

Vol. 87/No. 11 - March 20, 2023

Join us in expanding the reach of the Militant! The paper is launching an eight-week campaign to increase its readership, get out books by Socialist Workers Party and other revolutionary leaders and raise $165,000 for the paper from March 18-May…


Young socialists discuss class struggle with students in Cuba

Vol. 87/No. 11 - March 20, 2023

HAVANA — Young socialists from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom were invited by Cuban youth organizations for an exchange with students here Feb. 17. The lively back-and-forth took up an array of topics. The students were particularly…


Working people in East Palestine fight for control over their future

Vol. 87/No. 11 - March 20, 2023
After derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, burnt-out tank cars flank both sides of rebuilt double track Feb. 12. Norfolk Southern bosses rapidly began shipping again to boost profits. Residents, rail workers committees are needed to take control over cleanup, defend their class interests.

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Working people, family farmers and small-business people in this area continue to seek a way to defend their families’ health, homes and livelihoods in the wake of the Feb. 3 derailment of a Norfolk Southern train,…


EU, Greek rulers responsible for deadly train crash

Vol. 87/No. 11 - March 20, 2023

ATHENS, Greece — Outraged at bosses’ disregard for the lives of workers and passengers, thousands of trade unionists and others rallied outside parliament here March 5. Called by rail unions, student and other organizations, the action protested the government’s responsibility…


Fight to overturn ban on ‘Militant’ in Florida prison wins new support

Vol. 87/No. 11 - March 20, 2023

The Florida Department of Corrections’ Literature Review Committee “reviewed and overturned the impoundment” at Blackwater River Correctional Facility of the Jan. 30 issue of the Militant on March 9 and says “the publication is being processed for release to the inmate.”…


Profit-driven hospital bosses cut back on maternity wards

Vol. 87/No. 11 - March 20, 2023
Protest against closing Petaluma Valley Hospital maternity ward in northern California, Feb. 15.

Bosses at hospitals in rural areas are shuttering maternity wards, claiming it’s no longer profitable to maintain them. This throws into disarray the health and lives of millions of women, their families and their newborn babies. The employers’ actions come…


Communist League in Canada advances working-class program

Vol. 87/No. 11 - March 20, 2023
“We can’t rely on parties that defend the interests of the bosses,” Beverly Bernardo, the Communist League candidate in Canada, inset, told audience of 65 at candidates debate sponsored by the Solidarity Saint-Henri community organization in Montreal Feb. 28.

MONTREAL — Beverly Bernardo, Communist League candidate in the March 13 provincial by-election in the Montreal electoral constituency of Saint-Henri-Sainte-Anne, brought her fighting working-class program to some 65 people at a candidates’ debate Feb. 28, sponsored by the Solidarity Saint-Henri…


New Jersey sanitation workers end strike, union comes out stronger

Vol. 87/No. 11 - March 20, 2023

CAMDEN, N.J. — Some 130 striking sanitation workers here, members of Teamsters Local 115, voted 64-41 March 5 to accept Waste Management’s latest contract offer and returned to work three days later. On strike since Jan. 31, “we pushed the…


Protests in Iran demand answers, end to poisoning of schoolchildren

Vol. 87/No. 11 - March 20, 2023
Karaj, Iran, protest, one of many initiated by teachers union in Iran March 7, called for commission independent of regime to investigate reports of poisoning at girls schools.

Angry parents, teachers and students protested across Iran March 7 in the face of widespread reports of poisoning by toxic gases of more than 1,000 students at over 125 primary and secondary girls schools in more than a dozen provinces…