META, Ky. — For the second time in six months, coal miners in eastern Kentucky took action to protest working without pay by blocking a coal train, winning broad community support and forcing the bosses to pay what was owed…
The Socialist Workers Party 2020 presidential ticket will be announced shortly and a slate of candidates across the country is advancing a program for working people to defend their jobs, income and safety and fight in the interests of all…
TUCSON, Ariz. — “We stand before you 100 days into our strike fighting against corporate greed and social injustice,” Alex Terrazas, a worker at Asarco’s Mission copper mine and president of United Steelworkers Local 937, told the crowd at the…
President Donald Trump is campaigning hard for reelection, saying his administration has created more jobs and higher wages and that his trade policy and moves to grow the military — and his willingness to use it — mean U.S. workers…
As word has gotten out about the Militant’s appeal filed against prison authorities at Indiana’s Pendleton Correctional Facility banning subscriber Kevin “Rashid” Johnson from getting several issues of the paper, letters of protest have been sent to the Indiana Department…
CHICAGO — Rail bosses in North America have slashed thousands of jobs — from engineers and conductors to track maintenance and equipment repair workers — in recent months, with more cuts in the works. At the same time they brag…
CHICAGO — An area plumber’s red van has been a common sight for the last few weeks outside of the Walmart Tire and Lube center at a Chicago area store. Walmart bosses hired a plumber to fix the pipes, pumps…
MONTREAL — “Our main concerns are safety and wages,” Tony Digenova, International Association of Machinists Local 2301 chief steward, told the Militant on the picket line at the Montréal-Trudeau International airport Jan. 9. He is one of 108 aircraft supply…
BALMORAL VILLAGE, Australia — Supporters of the Militant arrived here, 60 miles southwest of Sydney, to discuss the impact of large-scale fires in December and to offer solidarity. We found a hub of activity at the local Rural Fire Service…
NEWARK, Del. — “Our doors stay open,” Ruth Lytle-Barnaby, president of Planned Parenthood of Delaware, told some 150 people who filled the New Ark United Church of Christ here Jan. 11 at a solidarity rally against an arson assault against…
