The article “Indigenous People Debate Building Canada Pipeline” in issue no. 10 should have said the Coastal GasLink pipeline runs from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to Kitimat on the west coast. In issue no. 9, the article “Striking Asarco Miners…
March 27, 1995 DES MOINES — Union members from throughout the region rallied here March 11 to support rubber workers on strike for the past eight months at the Bridgestone/Firestone agricultural tire plant in this city. Most of the more…
NEW YORK — “A people aiming to build a society based on solidarity” — that’s what Cuba’s socialist revolution represents, said Enrique Ubieta, author of Red Zone: Cuba and the Battle Against Ebola in West Africa. He was addressing a…
“We’re on the picket line standing up to violations and abuse of workers and the environment by Asarco,” Eduardo Placencio, recording secretary of striking United Steelworkers Local 937 at the Mission Mine south of Tucson, told the Militant by phone…
As the spread of coronavirus disease continues worldwide, stock prices have plunged more than any time since the 2008 global financial crisis, reflecting growing concerns among capitalist investors about the effect of the outbreak. World economic growth has begun to…
Many workers are looking for ways to change years of declining real wages, worsening working conditions and the many abuses the bosses and their governments bring down on us. But Democrats and Republicans tussling for the White House –— Bernie…
SEATTLE — With the spread of coronavirus, working people are facing new problems caused by capitalism’s for-profit health system, growing economic dislocations and the rulers’ insistence that workers are on their own in finding ways to get food and supplies.…
Thousands turned out for events in Puerto Rico over three days to honor independence fighter, partisan of the Cuban Revolution and uncompromising internationalist Rafael Cancel Miranda. He died March 2 at 89 at his home in San Juan. Cancel Miranda…
Led by young women, fighters for abortion rights are on the move in Argentina. In the past few years they have organized a series of large mobilizations, won growing support and forced a first-ever vote on legalization in the National…
OAKLAND, Calif. — Joel Britton, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Congress in the 13th District here, campaigned Feb. 29 in West Oakland, where trichloroethylene, an industrial solvent linked to increased cancer risk, has been found in the groundwater under McClymonds…
