STATEN ISLAND, New York — Showing a growing desire to resist speedup, unsafe conditions, bosses’ disrespect and the need to win higher wages, workers at the massive JFK8 Amazon warehouse here voted 2,654 to 2,131 in favor of the Amazon…
“I was thinking about leasing a truck, but now I won’t because of the costs of fuel and other things,” trucker Richard Swim, 24, told Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of Texas, while she was campaigning at…
PITTSBURGH — Over five months after Jim Rogers died after a city cop repeatedly stunned him with a Taser Oct. 13, Pittsburgh Mayor Edward Gainey and Public Safety Director Lee Schmidt announced March 23 that five officers involved had been…
MINNEAPOLIS — Members of Minneapolis Federation of Teachers Local 59 voted to end their nearly three-week strike March 27, having made progress. The union said that both of its contracts — the one covering 4,500 teachers and the other for…
MANCHESTER, England — “We’ve already won a lot,” Garry Walker, Unite union representative at CHEP, told the Militant during a solidarity party for pallet workers who are into their 16th week on strike. They were joined by trade unionists from…
The South Carolina Department of Corrections announced March 18 that it will now organize executions by firing squad, which was legalized last year after a decadelong halt in carrying out any death sentences. The law, adopted last May, makes South…
White House and State Department officials traveled to Caracas March 5 to meet with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to discuss a partial lifting of sanctions that Washington imposed on that country’s oil industry in 2017. The visit grows out of…
Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine has been stalled in a number of areas by fierce Ukrainian armed opposition, along with spirited protests in occupied cities. After raining destruction on civilian populations to try to hammer them into submission, Moscow is stepping…
As Ukrainian working people, arms in hand, defend their country’s sovereignty against Moscow’s invasion today, the Militant features Samizdat, Voices of the Soviet Opposition, which contains clandestine writings circulated in the Soviet Union that challenged the anti-working-class regime under Joseph…
Some 40 people rallied in Miami, above, and then caravanned in 20 cars through the streets of Little Havana to City Hall March 27, part of an international day of action demanding an end to Washington’s over 60-year economic war…
