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Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, fund March 12-May 17 (week two)

Rolls-Royce engine workers strike over attack on their jobs, pensions in Quebec

MONTREAL — “More and more corporations are trying to break unions and workers’ rights everywhere are being attacked,” Tom Larin, a striking inspector at Rolls-Royce’s aircraft engine maintenance plant here, told the Militant. “You see it globally, including in Canada,…

Yale law students disrupt meeting, deal blow to right to free speech

In an attack on the right to free speech, which working people need to organize against assaults by the bosses and their government, more than 100 Yale law students disrupted a March 10 campus debate over civil liberties, which was…

Minneapolis teachers end strike, make gains in new contract

MINNEAPOLIS — Members of Minneapolis Federation of Teachers Local 59 voted to end their nearly three-week strike March 27, having made progress. The union said that both of its contracts — the one covering 4,500 teachers and the other for…

UK pallet workers win support in strike for higher pay

MANCHESTER, England —  “We’ve already won a lot,” Garry Walker, Unite union representative at CHEP, told the Militant during a solidarity party for pallet workers who are into their 16th week on strike. They were joined by trade unionists from…

S. Carolina offers ‘choice’ of being killed by firing squad

The South Carolina Department of Corrections announced March 18 that it will now organize executions by firing squad, which was legalized last year after a decadelong halt in carrying out any death sentences. The law, adopted last May, makes South…

US rulers probe Venezuela deal as sanctions on Russia cut off oil

White House and State Department officials traveled to Caracas March 5 to meet with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to discuss a partial lifting of sanctions that Washington imposed on that country’s oil industry in 2017. The visit grows out of…

Working people in Ukraine resist invasion by Moscow

Join protests to defend Ukraine independence!

Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine has been stalled in a number of areas by fierce Ukrainian armed opposition, along with spirited protests in occupied cities. After raining destruction on civilian populations to try to hammer them into submission, Moscow is stepping…

Stalin’s oppression, Nazi occupation fuel fight for Ukraine independence

As Ukrainian working people, arms in hand, defend their country’s sovereignty against Moscow’s invasion today, the Militant features Samizdat, Voices of the Soviet Opposition, which contains clandestine writings circulated in the Soviet Union that challenged the anti-working-class regime under Joseph…

Protesters demand: ‘End US economic war on Cuba!’

Some 40 people rallied in Miami, above, and then caravanned in 20 cars through the streets of Little Havana to City Hall March 27, part of an international day of action demanding an end to Washington’s over 60-year economic war…