May 14, 2001 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The decision of the U.S. Navy to resume its military exercises and bombings on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques has touched off protests in Puerto Rico, in the United States, and…
Hundreds of thousands of workers in the U.S. and around the world turned out for marches, rallies and other actions called by unions and others on May Day. In the U.S. many of the actions focused on the defense of…
OSLO, Norway — Striking workers in the hotel and restaurant industry mobilized for the May Day march here. They are part of an expanding nationwide walkout by over 4,000 members of the Norwegian United Federation of Trade Unions and the…
MONTREAL — Striking workers at the giant Metro supermarket chain here continue to win support for their fight for a better contract. The Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN), their union, has condemned Metro bosses for using contract drivers as…
The number of immigrants living in the European Union hit a total of more than 64 million in 2025, a record high, as millions of working people seek a better life in the face of the wars and social disasters…
With $111,741 collected toward the annual Militant Fighting Fund, supporters of the fund are stepping up efforts to take the $165,000 goal over the top in the remaining two weeks of the campaign. The Militant accepts no paid advertising and…
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — A Pathfinder Press booth was set up here at the Bogotá International Book Fair, one of the largest in Latin America, being held April 21-May 4. Last year’s book fair drew some 570,000 visitors. Popular titles in…
Catholic nuns at the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, New York, run Rosary Hill Home, a 42-bed hospice care facility for the poor there. On April 6 they filed a lawsuit because New York state officials are violating their constitutional rights. …
Tehran is continuing to arrest union activists and impose its strict internet shutdown, in a doomed attempt to prevent working people and oppressed nationalities from organizing to defend their interests amid the lull in the war. Opponents of the reactionary…
NEW YORK — Narges Mohammadi has spent more than a decade in Iran’s prisons, Karin Deutsch Karlekar told a meeting at the Rizzoli Bookstore here April 22. Karlekar is the director of Writers at Risk at PEN America and co-chair…
