Moscow’s larger and better armed military continues to fail to make any substantial gains against determined and motivated Ukrainian workers and soldiers defending their country’s independence. Russian President Vladimir Putin has turned to a protracted war of attrition, seeking a…
As he openly explained, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine last February to destroy its government, subjugate its people, obliterate their national identity, and incorporate it into a rebuilt greater Russian empire. With working people in the…
Dozens demonstrated outside Rajai Shahr jail near Tehran Jan. 8 and 9 to demand an end to the death penalty, including the mother of Mohammad Ghobadlou, one of several anti-government protesters convicted of “enmity to God” and sentenced to death. …
February 2, 1998 LOS ANGELES — The crisis growing out of the merger of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads sparked a picket line of 45 spouses and children of Union Pacific employees at the Colton Yard in southern…
Members and supporters of the Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom are reaching out to the more than 1,300 persons who subscribed to the Militant last fall. They will discuss the party’s program…
The 31st Havana International Book Fair, with the theme “To read is to grow,” will take place Feb. 9-19. This year’s country of honor is Colombia. This year’s fair also honors Cuban poet and essayist Fina García Marruz, who died…
We are inviting recent Militant subscribers to become long-term readers. And we are also asking distributors and partisans of the Militant worldwide to join us in the effort to reach out to as many people as possible who subscribed to…
EDINBURGH, Scotland — Hundreds gathered outside the Scottish Parliament here Dec. 21 to protest the passage of a bill based on anti-scientific notions that “men” and “women” are merely subjective categories that can be changed at will. Such views undermine…
LONDON — “The strike is solid,” Jim Hart, Unite union representative at the Abellio Bus depot in Battersea, told the Militant Dec. 31. They’ve carried out 13 days of strike action since November, fighting against boss attacks on their wages…
OAKLAND, Calif. — Union nurses at Sutter Alta Bates hospitals here and in Berkeley concluded a nine-day strike on New Year’s Day with rallies at both locations. Some 1,800 members of the California Nurses Association had turned down hospital bosses’…
