LOS ANGELES — Chanting “What’s disgusting? Union busting! What’s outrageous? Poverty wages,” hundreds of striking University of California at Los Angeles teaching assistants and other workers and their supporters picketed across the campus here Nov. 17. Nearly 48,000 University of…
Taking advantage of Donald Trump’s Nov. 15 announcement that he is running for president, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed New York Prosecutor Jack Smith as a special counsel to go after him. Smith is tasked with digging into Trump’s handling…
AMHERST, Ohio — Members of International Association of Machinists Local 1802 went on strike here against Nordson Industrial Coatings Systems Nov. 14 after soundly rejecting the company’s “last, best and final” offer. Their previous contract expired the day before. Over…
ATLANTA — “We had a successful rally Nov. 9,” striking United Mine Workers of America member Antwon Mcghee told the Militant Nov. 21. “There were several hundred miners and supporters there, including UMWA members and officials from seven states, as…
LIVERPOOL, England — Some 700 workers at Jacob’s Cream Crackers plant here walked out on an indefinite strike Nov. 14 in a fight for higher wages. The factory is one of several in the country owned by Pladis, which its…
Howls of impending doom and gloom spread through the liberal capitalist media after the United Nations announced the world population hit 8 billion in November. Many self-appointed population “experts” have determined this means the planet has reached its maximum “carrying…
Red Zone: Cuba and the Battle Against Ebola in West Africa by Enrique Ubieta is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. Ubieta has written about the work of Cuba’s internationalist doctors and nurses in some of the…
December 8, 1997 U.S. hands off Iraq! Lift the embargo and get all the “inspectors” out of the country! End the U-2 spy flights and the “no-fly” zones that violate the country’s sovereign air space! That’s what anyone opposed to…
“Enclosed is a check for $700 for the Militant. We appreciate the invitation made in the paper to contribute California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s contemptuous bribe aimed at corralling some votes for the Democrats in the 2022 election.” This note came…
NEW YORK — “They haven’t been able to break Cuba, so they have to criminalize solidarity,” Milagros Rivera, president of the Cuba Solidarity Committee in Puerto Rico, said in an Oct. 28 interview at the Militant office here. She was…
