The Militant is continuing to press Florida prison officials to cease and desist from their unconstitutional censorship of the socialist newsweekly. Florida officials had impounded at least 18 issues of the paper sent to its subscribers behind bars in less…
The excerpt below is from Art and Revolution: Writings on Literature, Politics and Culture by Leon Trotsky. It is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January. Trotsky was one of the leaders of the Russian Revolution and of…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has spent the last few weeks repeatedly threatening to unleash a military assault on Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) that control a swathe of eastern Syria. These forces have won a measure of autonomous rule…
Dog-eat-dog competition for higher profits are driving rail bosses to risk the lives of rail workers and people who live in communities near the tracks, and to foul the air, soil and water used by millions. At least 22 rail…
January 10, 1994 MORGANTOWN, West Virginia — Eight members of United Mine Workers of America Local 5958 will stand trial January 24 in Charleston, West Virginia. The miners were framed up in the July 22 shooting death of nonunion contract…
OAKLAND, Calif. — Mental health clinicians — members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers — organized picket lines at 33 Kaiser facilities across the state during their five-day strike that ended Dec. 14. They were joined at the Oakland…
The Militant welcomes the 1,400 new subscribers to the paper, and the workers, young people and others who bought 999 books on working-class politics by leaders of the Socialist Workers Party. This represents an advance for the reach of the…
CHICAGO — Teachers and staff at Acero charter schools here celebrated a victory Dec. 9 after a five-day strike. “Today our students and families have won — bottom line,” Chicago Teachers Union staff member Andy Cooks told the gathering. A…
CHICO, Calif. — Since firefighters declared the Camp Fire 100 percent contained, the extent of the social catastrophe that accompanied the blaze — a product of the dog-eat-dog capitalist profit system — is becoming clearer. The catastrophe took the lives…
SAN FRANCISCO — Some 4,000 mental health care workers at Kaiser Permanente hospitals and clinics across California began a strike Dec. 10 that is set to last five days. The National Union of Healthcare Workers and their supporters mounted a…
