ST. PAUL PARK, Minn. — An important labor battle is playing out here that pits Marathon Petroleum — the largest oil refining company in the U.S. — against 200 workers, members of the Teamsters union. These workers deserve solidarity and…
Statement by Rebecca Williamson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Seattle City Council, Feb. 17. I’m asking workers and our unions to spread the word and build solidarity with workers fighting against boss attacks today — from oil refinery workers battling…
After campaign supporters turned in seven times the number of required signatures, Gerardo Sánchez, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Dallas City Council, was certified for the ballot Feb. 10. Supporters of the campaign of Joe Swanson, the party’s candidate for…
OAKLAND, Calif. — The San Francisco Board of Education voted Jan. 26 that 44 public schools, nearly a third of the total, would be renamed. Among the names of those to be canceled are poet Robert Louis Stevenson, abolitionist poet…
Victory! Pennsylvania state officials informed the Militant Feb. 12 that they had overturned the ban on the Jan. 4 issue of the paper at the Camp Hill State Correctional Institution. “We did pull the publication to review and determined that…
Even before the Senate voted Feb. 13 to reject the impeachment of former President Donald Trump, Democrats and other liberal groups were pursuing additional ways to break him. They want to bankrupt and block him from ever running for office…
ATLANTA — Nearly 6,000 workers at the Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, began voting Feb. 8 on whether the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union should represent them in their efforts to improve wages and working conditions and defend…
SYDNEY — Some 350 warehouse workers at Coles distribution center in Smeaton Grange in southwest Sydney have been picketing since the bosses locked them out Nov. 19. Coles announced they decided to extend the three-month lockout indefinitely Feb. 9 after…
March 4, 1996 The grim consequences of the rail bosses’ drive to increase productivity and profits through “cost cutting” measures have been driven home with deadly force this month. Eighteen people have been killed in rail accidents in 21 days.…
Feb. 21 marks the 56th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X. Malcolm was “the face and the authentic voice of the forces of the coming American revolution. He spoke the truth to our generation of revolutionists,” Jack Barnes, then…
