RICHMOND, Calif. — “Why are workers here angry? It’s the lack of respect, the arrogance of the company,” striker Frank Aguirre told this Militant worker-correspondent March 27 as I joined him picketing outside the Chevron oil refinery here. The workers…
An example of the opposition brewing across Russia to Moscow’s war in Ukraine is the statement by Ivan Fedoseyev, who resigned his position as deputy in a village of 200 in the Perm Krai region March 14. “If I had…
A lively debate over the war in Ukraine has been featured in the letters page of the San Leandro Times. Joel Britton, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of California, joined the discussion in a letter printed March 17. The…
PAVO, Ga. — “The war in Ukraine and rising prices are the No. 1 topics of discussion among farmers in this area, Black and white,” said Willie Head, a longtime farmer in South Georgia. He was speaking with Sam Manuel,…
Explaining the stakes for working people in opposing Moscow’s war against Ukraine is at the center of discussions that members of the Socialist Workers Party are having with working people on their doorsteps, at factory gates, truck stops, on picket…
April 7, 1997 President William Clinton reaffirmed Washington’s plans to expand the North Atlantic Treaty Organization into eastern and central Europe at his March 20-21 conference with Russian president Boris Yeltsin in Helsinki, Finland. “I have reaffirmed that NATO enlargement…
ATLANTA — “We’re getting support from unions all over the country for the April 6 rally” to back United Mine Workers of America members who’ve been on strike for a year in Brookwood, Alabama, UMWA Director of Communications Erin Bates…
NEW YORK — “The U.S. government seeks through all its means to suffocate the Cuban economy,” said Pedro Luis Pedroso, Cuba’s permanent representative to the United Nations. “But in spite of the U.S. blockade and aggressions, the Cuban people will…
HAGERSTOWN, Md. — Now in its second week, the trucker-led People’s Convoy continues to press demands for an end to U.S. government COVID-19 mandates and other attacks on their livelihoods. The convoy is an opportunity for truckers to protest boss…
MONTREAL — A major cross-country lockout and strike battle broke out March 20 involving 3,000 Canadian Pacific Railway engineers, conductors and yard workers, members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference union. Two days later the parties agreed to submit their…
