HAVANA — More than 600,000 working people marched here May 1, International Workers Day, and hundreds of thousands more paraded through other cities and towns, big and small, across Cuba. It was a massive, celebratory expression by Cuba’s working people…
Despite overwhelming bipartisan agreement on the U.S. rulers’ efforts to advance their imperialist interests amid Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, the bosses’ two main parties — the Democrats and Republicans — remain embroiled in deep division and crisis. The capitalist rulers…
Demonstrations protesting the killing of Patrick Lyoya in Grand Rapids, Michigan, have been taking place every evening at 6 p.m., Lakyra Price-Sanders told the Militant in a phone interview April 29. “We’re continuing to do what we can to bring…
HAVANA — “Since you haven’t had a chance to attend the book fair during your stay here, we decided to bring a piece of it to you,” said Odalys Cárdenas of the Central Organization of Cuban Workers (CTC). She was…
LONDON — Volunteers from five countries staffed the Pathfinder booth at the first London Book Fair in three years April 5-7. Their goal was to expand the distribution of books that present the lessons of decades of revolutionary working-class struggle,…
MANCHESTER, England — “We are proud, many thought this wasn’t achievable but we stuck together to the end,” strike leader Gary Walker told the Militant April 27 as workers at the Trafford Park warehouse here celebrated their victory over CHEP,…
A one-day nationwide strike in Sri Lanka April 28 demanded that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resign. The strike comes amid weeks of protests in this island nation over rising inflation, power outages and shortages of food and fuel. “Costs are increasing…
Weeks of rising anger toward government officials in response to severe COVID restrictions and accompanying food shortages spurred protests in Shanghai at the end of April. Dozens of residents in Jinze, a Shanghai suburb, marched through the streets demanding food.…
Some 250 rallies took place across France on May Day, with over 100,000 people protesting the anti-working-class policies of the newly reelected government of President Emmanuel Macron, especially his plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 65. Among…
