Halfway through the Jan. 1 to Feb. 15 international Militant renewal drive, more than 200 readers have renewed their subscriptions. Members of the Socialist Workers Party in the U.S. and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United…
LOS ANGELES — Socialist Workers Party members in California met in a statewide convention here Jan. 23 and voted to run Eleanor García, a retired aerospace worker and party leader with long experience in working-class struggles, for U.S. Senate and…
Erin Turner recently started working 12-hour shifts in Iowa to cover the $1,520 a month she spends on child care for her two young children, more then twice her rent. “We’re already living within our means. We don’t have anywhere…
In a highly publicized antisemitic attack, Malik Faisal Akram took four hostages at gunpoint during a livestream service at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, Jan. 15. He held the hostages, including Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, for 11 hours,…
MANCHESTER, England — “The support for our strike has opened my mind,” Garry Walker, a worker at CHEP pallet company, told a solidarity meeting organized by Manchester Trades Union Council Jan. 12. The workers, organized by Unite, went on strike…
JOLIETTE, Quebec — Locked out since last May, some 110 workers at Ash Grove’s cement plant here unanimously voted down the employers’ latest offer Jan. 6. “The union has asked for nothing except to maintain established rights,” Renaud Gagne, Unifor’s…
WORKSOP, England — “We want a wage that allows us to pay our bills, feed and take care of our families and live,” Kelly Donnelly, a striker at the Wincanton warehouse, told the Militant on the spirited picket line here…
Former Republican Gov. Matt Bevin of Kentucky pardoned 670 prisoners who had been convicted by state courts there as he left office at the end of 2019. Over two years later U.S. District Court Judge Claria Horn Boom sentenced one…
Malcolm X: The Last Speeches is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Malcolm X emerged as an outstanding leader of the popular struggle for Black liberation. An intransigent opponent of the U.S. government and its imperialist policies,…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Three dozen people rallied in a Martin Luther King Day protest Jan. 17 across the street from the state Capitol building here demanding that Carlos Harris and other unjustly incarcerated prisoners be released. “My cousin Carlos has…
