Nine student groups at the University of California’s Berkeley School of Law adopted bylaws in August promoted by Law Students for Justice in Palestine that ban “speakers that have expressed and continued to hold views or host/sponsor/promote events in support…
LOS ANGELES — “I haven’t received the $350 in my bank account yet, but I am sending that amount to the Militant now in anticipation of getting it,” Los Angeles area resident Pat Nixon said Oct. 18. “The Militant is…
LONDON — Just 40 days after taking office, Prime Minister Elizabeth Truss faces calls to quit from fellow Conservative Party members, following financial turmoil triggered by her government’s first budget. This heralds further assaults on jobs, wages and pensions, exacerbating…
ATLANTA — International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1410 sent out a press release announcing plans to take strike action Oct. 20 against CSA Equipment Company, which operates at the Port of Mobile, Alabama, on the Gulf of Mexico. “There is overwhelming…
Saban Yildirim, one of 41 miners killed in an Oct. 14 coal mine disaster in Amasra, Turkey, had told his wife that “the mine had been smelling of gas inside for 10 days,” his father Kemal Yildirim told the press.…
November 3, 1997 SANTA CLARA, Cuba — “We come not to bid farewell to Che and his heroic comrades, but to welcome them,” Cuban president Fidel Castro told an overflow crowd in the Ernesto Che Guevara Plaza Oct. 17. “I…
WASHINGTON — Thousands of people, including many young women, turned out for the “Women’s Wave” march here Oct. 8, as they did in similar actions across the country. Organizers appealed to them to join in campaigning and voting for Democratic…
October 27, 1997 NEW YORK — “We are here and we are not leaving,” chanted hundreds of people in Spanish, marching through Manhattan in defense of immigrant rights October 12. Among the marchers were workers and young people born in…
The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, which organizes some 25,000 track builders and repair workers, one of the largest of the 12 rail workers’ unions, announced Oct. 10 that its members had voted down a tentative agreement reached last…
Berni Kuhn Berni Kuhn, a long-time supporter of the Socialist Workers Party, died here Sept. 19. She had been a member in the Minneapolis and Albuquerque branches. Berni was a reader and kept informed on politics. Despite long-term health problems,…
