February 13, 1995 ALLIANCE, Nebraska — Rail workers here face massive overtime demands by the bosses, which have been accompanied by the most significant hiring by the railroads in more than a decade. Rail unionists are being forced to work…
A victory has been won in the fight to reverse impoundments of the Militant from subscriber Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, who is incarcerated at the Pendleton Correctional Facility in Indiana. “I am writing on behalf of the Indiana Department of Correction…
Supporters of the Cuban Revolution are getting out the word about the 15th May Day Brigade to Cuba, April 27 to May 10, and they’re finding interest. “Most of what I had heard about Cuba was negative,” Brandon Freer, a…
“The Socialist Workers Party campaign presents a road forward for working-class struggle to advance the self-confidence, fighting capacities and class consciousness of working people,” Alyson Kennedy, SWP candidate for president in 2020, told the Militant. The party announced Jan. 29…
Alyson Kennedy Alyson Kennedy grew up in Indianapolis, where she was attracted to the massive battles she followed on TV against racist cops and KKK thugs across the South that tore down Jim Crow segregation, strengthening the whole working class.…
Over 700 workers at the Coop Refinery in Regina, Saskatchewan, are fighting to defend their pensions. They were locked out Dec. 5 after they voted overwhelmingly to strike. Unifor, the workers union, mobilized hundreds of members from across Canada Jan.…
BURLINGTON, Ontario — Hundreds of teachers and community supporters picketed outside the Central Public Elementary School here Jan. 23, part of province-wide, weekly rotating strikes against the Ontario government’s attempts to cut school funding. Tens of thousands of Ontario teachers,…
Many liberal editorial writers claimed that the Jan. 2 U.S. military operation that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani would cause people to unite behind the regimes in Iran and Iraq in outrage. Soleimani commanded the Iranian rulers’ Quds Force, the wing…
Thousands of working people and youth have taken part in protests against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard shooting down a Ukrainian passenger aircraft Jan. 8 — killing all 176 passengers — after the government sought to cover it up and then…
META, Ky. — For the second time in six months, coal miners in eastern Kentucky took action to protest working without pay by blocking a coal train, winning broad community support and forcing the bosses to pay what was owed…
