FAIRFIELD, Texas — Steers crowd under trees in parched brown pasture and mileslong lines of ranchers queue at the auction house here to sell off cattle they can no longer afford to feed. Texas faces the worst drought since 2011.…
August 25, 1997 HAVANA — Tens of thousands of young people filled the Panamerican stadium here August 5 for the closing ceremony of the 14th World Festival of Youth and Students. Among them were most of the 12,335 delegates from…
Messages of support to the Cuban people and government keep arriving from around the world following a devastating fire that has destroyed four of the eight fuel tanks at the Matanzas Supertanker Base, the country’s largest oil storage and distribution…
Delight with your article I want to express my sincere gratitude and delight at reading the excellently written Aug. 8 Militant article entitled “National Federation of Blind traces its aims, history, fight for rights.” Jane Roland and others captured the…
According to government officials in Russia, there are practically no labor disputes or strikes there because amicable relations exist between workers, bosses and the government. But a closer look tells a very different story. There were almost 400 labor protests…
The armed raid by the FBI, on the home of former President Donald Trump in Florida Aug. 8, deals blows to rights in the U.S. Constitution that provide vital protection against state interference in political and trade union activity. These…
In the first attempt since 2018 by federal prison authorities to suppress the Militant, the warden at the Federal Correctional Institution in Phoenix rejected an issue of the paper June 29 that had been sent to an inmate subscriber there.…
MANCHESTER, England — Tens of thousands of rail and telecommunication workers struck across the U.K. at the end of July, refusing to accept below inflation pay and attacks on their conditions. Retail inflation here is running at 11%, a 40-year…
MINNEAPOLIS — Some 25 workers in a south Minneapolis Starbucks went on strike, picketing on Cedar Avenue South here for two days starting July 31. The bosses were forced to close the store for both days as all the workers…
Thank you so much for the free subscription to the Militant. It was well read, with at least six men reading it thoroughly and many others perusing it. It certainly provoked political conversations in here, a place where politics is…
