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Fall Campaign to sell Militant subscriptions and books Oct. 5 – Dec. 10 (Week 7)

Striking steelworkers in British Columbia rally over concessions

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Over 500 striking members of United Steelworkers Local 1937 and their supporters marched and rallied at Western Forest Products corporate headquarters in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Nov. 6. Workers came by busload from throughout the area. Some…

Socialist Workers Party Fund Drive Oct. 5 – Dec. 10 (Week 7)

Workers organize support for flood-hit parts of UK

BENTLEY, England — Inadequate provision of flood defenses and other infrastructure, coupled with the government’s refusal to organize much needed aid, have wreaked havoc on the livelihoods of workers and farmers across parts of Yorkshire and the Midlands after flooding…

‘Our History Is Still Being Written’ now out in French

MONTREAL — The French-language translation of Pathfinder Press’s Our History Is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution  by Armando Choy, Gustavo Chui and Moisés Sío Wong just rolled off the presses. This new translation…

Bolivia protests falter after deal with ‘interim’ gov’t

For two weeks workers, peasants and indigenous communities organized protests across Bolivia against the ouster of President Evo Morales. These have wound down for now after a shaky agreement was reached between the new government and the protesters. Morales resigned…

‘Teamsters union treated owner-drivers as fellow workers’

Teamster Politics by Farrell Dobbs is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. It is the third volume of a four-part series on the history of that union during the giant labor battles of the 1930s. Dobbs emerged…

Help make ‘Militant,’ book, fund drive

The Militant  urges its readers to join with Socialist Workers Party members in the final two weeks of the campaign to expand the readership of the paper and books by SWP and other revolutionary working-class leaders and to win contributions…

Conviction overturned, Gerald Reed’s still in jail

CHICAGO — Gerald Reed went back to court here Oct. 25 in another bid to win his freedom. He has been incarcerated on frame-up charges extracted by cop torture for a 1990 double homicide that was overturned last year. Cook…

25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

December 12, 1994 The effects of Washington’s effort to starve the people of Iraq are prompting warnings of approaching famine and total economic collapse. At a November 14 meeting, the United Nations Security Council, at the behest of the U.S.…