Another victory! On May 27 the Militant was informed by Charles Huber, the new chair of the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee, that the ban on five consecutive Militant issues from March imposed by the Century Correctional Institution…
President Joseph Biden presented a budget to Congress May 28 with $6 trillion in government spending to be “paid” for by a massive expansion of government debt. This is the highest amount since the U.S. rulers ramped up military spending…
MCCALLA, Ala. — Heading into their third month on strike, some 1,100 United Mine Workers of America members at Warrior Met Coal are maintaining round-the-clock picket lines at more than a dozen mine portals, railroad crossings, a coal preparation plant…
Claiming they’re taking steps to root out white supremacy, California’s State Board of Education and similar authorities in other states are considering a new curriculum that would upend how mathematics is taught in public schools. It’s outlined in a document…
June 17, 1996 The statement below was released June 5 by James Harris, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, and SWP vice-presidential candidate Laura Garza. Our campaign calls on the labor movement and every democratic-minded human being to organize protests…
The enthusiastic response to the SWP “stimulus” appeal has made a big addition to the resources for the ongoing work of the SWP! Over the last two and a half months 148 people have contributed $177,920! This column extends a…
VALLEE-JONCTION, Quebec — Over 250 striking meatpackers, members of the Union of Olymel Workers at Vallee-Jonction, marched here May 24 protesting their treatment by the bosses. Some 1,000 union meatpackers walked out when the employers refused to show up for…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — When Margaret Trowe, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Louisville, and supporters took part in a “March for Palestine” May 23 organized by Students for Justice in Palestine, they set up a table with campaign literature,…
BANBURY, England — Workers at the Jacobs Douwe Egberts coffee factory here held a three-day strike starting May 26, one of a series of stoppages to oppose wage and pension cuts, worse job conditions and the imposition of inhumane shift…
MANCHESTER, England — Bosses at Go North West “wanted to take a lot, but we’ve clawed a lot back and have got a stronger union that they have to deal with,” Carl Walmsley, one of hundreds of striking bus drivers,…
