The enthusiastic response of Militant readers to its call for the defense of Ukraine’s independence, the defeat of Moscow’s invasion and for Washington to get all U.S. troops and nuclear weapons out of Europe is marked by contributions beginning to…
Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and accelerating sanctions imposed by Washington and its imperialist rivals on Russia, are sending supplies of oil and gas spiraling downward. Prices at the pump and for home heating have skyrocketed, deepening the crisis facing working…
Hundreds protested in Babil, Baghdad, and Nasiriyah (above) in southern Iraq March 9 in the face of sharp price hikes in cooking oil and other basic necessities, dealing blows to working people’s lives. “The price of some goods has doubled…
The Militant’s coverage of Ukraine is unique. The paper defends the country’s right to self-determination, a political conquest of the Bolshevik-led Russian Revolution in Lenin’s time that remains decisive to forging working-class unity. Acting on that communist continuity the paper…
MINNEAPOLIS — Some 4,500 teachers and professional support staff, represented by Minneapolis Federation of Teachers Local 59, went on strike March 8. The school district has hard-balled the workers’ needs in negotiations so the union authorized the strike by 97%.…
BESSEMER, Ala. — “It’s an atrocity that we, the laborers, generate 99% of the income, yet we get less than 1% of the cut,” Amazon worker Dale Wyatt told 150 unionists and others here Feb. 26. They had turned out…
Thousands of garment and other workers, above, took to the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, Feb. 17 demanding higher wages. Police fired into a Feb. 23 protest after the workers went on strike. Maxihen Lazzare, a reporter for Roi des…
Ivan Dzyuba died Feb. 22 at the age of 90, ironically on the eve of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Dzyuba was a literary critic and Marxist who was jailed by the then-Stalinist Soviet government of Ukraine in 1973 for his…
The Central Organization of Cuban Workers (CTC) is inviting workers around the world to the million-strong May Day parade in Havana — which celebrates International Workers Day and puts on display the determination of Cuban workers to defend their socialist…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Workers at the CHEP pallet company’s service center here celebrated March 4 after voting unanimously to accept a new contract following a two-week strike. The FIRST Union members had kept up a round-the-clock picket line, successfully…
