Over the last two weeks, bans on the Militant imposed by prison authorities in Indiana and Florida were overturned — important victories for defense of prisoners’ rights and for freedom of the press. The latest victory came June 9 when…
Arizona prison officials have “refurbished” their lethal gas chamber at the Florence state prison and bought the chemicals needed to resume poison gas executions there, using the same hydrogen cyanide employed by the Nazis in Auschwitz during the Holocaust, the…
Nationwide strikes and protests demanding jobs and an end to police attacks have paralyzed Colombia for almost two months. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets again June 2 after negotiations between the government and protest leaders stalled.…
MONTREAL — The discovery of the remains of 215 Indigenous children in an unmarked mass grave on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, confirmed May 27, has provoked outrage among working people across Canada.…
NEW YORK — The Dominican Republic is one of four countries in Latin America — along with Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador — where abortion is completely illegal, no exceptions. Only four Latin American countries have legalized abortion: revolutionary Cuba,…
ST. PAUL PARK, Minn. — Teamsters Local 120 members are in their fifth month picketing 24/7 at the Marathon Petroleum oil refinery here. They were locked out by the bosses Jan. 22 after a one day strike in a fight…
MCCALLA, Ala. — “We now have $100,000 more in the strike fund to support Warrior Met miners,” United Mine Workers of America International District 20 Vice President Larry Spencer told the union’s weekly solidarity rally here June 2. “We’ve received…
Food prices and the cost of other necessities for working people are soaring worldwide, highlighting the urgent need for workers to join together to fight for jobs, higher wages and automatic cost-of-living adjustments on our wages and retirement pay. Millions…
June 24, 1996 CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — Arsonists burned down a portion of an historic Black church here June 6. This is one of more than 30 fires set in Black churches in the South since early 1995. The attacks…
“We think workers should support unionists standing up to the bosses’ attacks, like striking miners in Alabama, and refinery workers in Minnesota and Texas,” Socialist Workers Party member Samir Hazboun told truck driver Dale Robinson in Louisville, Kentucky, June 5.…
