SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — In response to FBI harassment of participants in a solidarity brigade to Cuba a few weeks after they returned to Puerto Rico, the Cuba Solidarity Committee of Puerto Rico has called for a protest at…
The Gibson family has emerged victorious in its yearslong battle against slander charges by Oberlin College — a victory for all working people. After years of race-baiting and defamation aimed at destroying the Gibson family and their local bakery, and…
LONDON — Eight years after the reactionary Islamic State’s genocidal attack on the Yazidi people in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq, hundreds of thousands of Yazidis remain determined to return to their towns and villages and rebuild their lives,…
Members of the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K. are launching an eight-week campaign — Sept. 17 through Nov. 15 — to sell 1,350 Militant subscriptions and 1,350 books by SWP leaders and…
Pathfinder Press has released a 60th anniversary printing of October 1962: The ‘Missile’ Crisis as Seen from Cuba. The full story of that moment is told for the first time from the perspective of the Cuban people, whose determination to…
September 29, 1997 SAN FRANCISCO — “We raised the bar for all workers by winning this strike,” Steve Gilbert told the Militant. “The fact that we ended the two-tier system and won the wage gains sends a message to other…
BURLINGTON, Iowa — “We are not going anywhere!” United Auto Workers Local 807 strike captain Craig Bowen told the Militant at the picket line outside Case New Holland here on Labor Day. “And you can quote me on that.” “Yes,…
Thousands of people have rallied in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital city, and across the country Sept. 6 and since, demanding the government reverse a 30% jump in fuel prices it imposed amid soaring inflation in this country of 270 million people.…
ONEHUNGA, New Zealand — Wearing their firefighting gear, some 25 workers in the New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union led a protest march here Aug. 26, building support for their fight for a contract. The stoppage was part of a second…
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Some 15,000 members of the Minnesota Nurses Association began a three-day strike Sept. 12 at 15 hospitals in the Twin Cities and Duluth areas. They have been working without a contract since June 1. Hundreds picketed…
