LOS ANGELES — The constant stream of workers, students and other youth visiting the Pathfinder booth at the L.A. Times Festival of Books here April 23-24 were seeking an explanation for the deepening capitalist economic crisis and its resulting wars.…
RICHMOND, Calif. — On strike since March 21, members of United Steelworkers Local 5, which represents over 500 production and maintenance workers, are picketing 24/7 at the Chevron oil refinery here and winning support. Strikers on the picket line April…
OAKLAND, Calif. — More than 500 members of United Steelworkers Local 5 at the Chevron refinery near here in Richmond have been on strike since March 21. They have been receiving solidarity from area workers and need more. But one…
TORONTO — A tribute was held here April 17 to Reza Baraheni, a leader of the fight for political and artistic freedom in Iran and one of its most prominent poets, novelists and literary critics. Baraheni died in March at…
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Thousands of nurses walked off the job April 25 and began picketing outside both Stanford Hospital and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital here, in a strike over understaffing, work stress, wages, retiree health benefits and access to…
Weeks of protests by tens of thousands of workers, farmers and youth continue across Sri Lanka, demanding President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resign. Soaring inflation, spreading power outages and shortages of food and fuel are devastating millions, as the country’s rulers put…
When Socialist Workers Party leader George Novack joined in initiating the Committee for Artistic and Intellectual Freedom in Iran (CAIFI) in 1973, he brought along decades of leadership experience in revolutionary working-class politics and defense campaigns. In the 1940s he…
Attempting to reverse a series of embarrassing setbacks in his effort to crush independent Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an offensive April 18 in the eastern part of the country closest to Russia. He coupled the drive in Donetsk…
ATLANTA — Opportunities to build solidarity for the 1,100 members of United Mine Workers of America on strike for over a year at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, are growing. The April 6 solidarity rally near the mine that…
The Socialist Workers Party is campaigning, using the Militant to get out its program, and seeking to put its candidates in New Jersey on the ballot. The drive got off to a solid start April 17. The party is running…
