The fight to defend Ukraine’s independence and to get Moscow’s boot off the Ukrainian people’s back is at the heart of advancing working-class interests today. Under the czarist empire, the Ukrainian people were conquered and oppressed. Putin aims to reimpose…
Trash pickup drivers went on strike in mid-April in Novosibirsk, in south central Russia, after they discovered their bosses — the Eco-Trans-N complex — had lost their fleet of 86 trucks for unpaid debts. Company officials told them they would…
May 12, 1997 DETROIT — As 1,800 members of United Auto Workers Local 51 head into their third week on strike against the third largest U.S. automaker, talks between the union and Chrysler remain deadlocked. So far the strike by…
The Socialist Workers Party and its candidates for public office invite you to join us and thousands of other working people and youth at International Workers Day actions May 1. May Day — which was revived in the U.S. in…
Brian Oreggio Brian Oreggio, a longtime reader of the Militant in Manchester, died at age 60, April 12, after a long illness. Oreggio joined with co-workers who are members of the Communist League at Tulip Meats factory here in union…
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Daily protests have taken place here since April 12, when police released a video showing the fatal shooting of unarmed Patrick Lyoya by a Grand Rapids cop following a traffic stop. Lyoya, 26, worked in an…
Economic turmoil and political conflicts are rising across Asia in the wake of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, as governments seek the best course to defend their interests in a shifting world. Alongside the rulers of China and India, the capitalist…
RICHMOND, Calif. — Several dozen workers and their families joined striking refinery workers, members of United Steelworkers Local 5, at a picket line rally outside the Chevron refinery here April 7. The expanded picketing was part of ongoing efforts by…
MONTREAL — “We’ll stay out as long as we need to,” to force the excavation bosses to sign a contract, Jasvir Dhaliwal told the Militant April 16. Some 1,500 truck drivers who have been out on strike in the Greater…
