The Ukrainian people are resolutely defending their county’s sovereignty as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion entered its fifth year Feb. 24. Moscow’s airstrikes on the power grid, which controls heat, light and water in the harsh winter, are only stiffening…
NEW YORK — Nurses at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, members of the New York State Nurses Association, approved a new, improved contract Feb. 21 after 41 days on strike. The vote was 93% in favor and 7% opposed. “It was definitely…
HAYWARD, Calif. — Eleven hundred electricians, plumbers, mechanics, painters and other workers in the trades at California State University campuses carried out a four-day strike Feb. 17-20 demanding the university live up to what was agreed to in the union…
In a victory in his fight against the government’s drive to deport Kilmar Ábrego García, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in Maryland ruled Feb. 17 that he cannot be taken back into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. This…
As Washington’s blockade of the Cuban people intensifies, members of the Socialist Workers Party and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom are campaigning to get out the truth about, and defend, Cuba’s socialist revolution. They’re organizing public…
As part of celebrations in Cuba and worldwide marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Fidel Castro, the Militant is printing excerpts over the coming year from the speeches and writings of the central leader of Cuba’s socialist revolution.…
LOS ANGELES — The strike by some 31,000 members of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals at hospitals and clinics in California and Hawaii entered its fourth week Feb. 16. Spirited strike lines of nurses and…
The shopping list is radioed, as it is every morning. Today it’s for oatmeal cookies, smoked bacon, mayonnaise, vegetables and fruit, coffee, bread, some sandwiches. “Copy that,” the supply chief replies. The “customers” are Ukrainian soldiers in front-line trenches, ordering…
MINNEAPOLIS — Hundreds gathered in South Minneapolis Feb. 16 for a march and rally sponsored by the Minnesota AFL-CIO to protest the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and border control agencies’ ongoing arrests and brutality here. Speakers urged people to keep…
February 26, 2001 The entire labor movement has a stake in supporting efforts by the coal miners to defend and extend black lung benefits. It is part of the fight for human dignity, the right to a safe workplace, and…
