As beef plant owners, like the bosses at JBS in Greeley, crank up line speeds, they turn a blind eye to the inevitable injuries to their workers. But they keep looking for new ways to prevent leaving any profit-generating meat…
In the midst of Washington’s economic and political war against Cuba, working people and medical and scientific institutions on the island are not only fighting to preserve the gains made through their socialist revolution, they’re finding ways to develop vital…
Women organized by the Sugarcane Workers Union (UTC) in the Dominican Republic held an International Women’s Day celebration March 8 on the outskirts of Batey Palo Blanco, in La Romana province. The meeting was marked by their growing involvement in…
The Great Labor Uprising of 1877 by Philip S. Foner is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. After five years of economic depression, railroad workers in Martinsburg, West Virginia, went on strike against yet another wage cut.…
“We are getting very close to meeting our objectives” and ending the fighting, President Donald Trump claimed March 20, but then ordered another 2,500 Marines to the Middle East. This is on top of the 2,500 Marines sent the week…
SYDNEY — “What do we want? End the blockade! When do we want it? Now!” chanted participants at a March 21 protest here to oppose Washington’s escalating threats and economic stranglehold on Cuba. Up to 70 people rallied outside the…
Havana: Cuba’s sovereignty is not up for negotiation In the last three months President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have been either talking about a “friendly takeover” of Cuba, or that they’re “ready to bomb and destroy”…
The Militant and its readers scored a victory March 23 when the open-ended ban on the paper at the Federal Correctional Institution Three Rivers in southern Texas was reversed! Only a few days after Militant attorney David Goldstein filed an…
There are countless examples of how workers and farmers in Cuba are coming together to organize to meet the brutal effects of Washington’s stepped-up economic war and defend the gains of their socialist revolution. They are doing it with the…
