LIVERPOOL, England — Shipyard workers, members of the Unite and GMB unions, walked out of the Cammell Laird shipyard here Nov. 23 and began “rolling” strike actions. On Dec. 7 they decided to suspend the strikes for four weeks to…
After impounding seven issues in one 10-week stretch earlier this year, Florida prison officials have eased off on their censorship against the Militant. This isn’t because of any change in the socialist newsweekly’s political coverage of working-class politics and protests…
More than 1,000 members of public workers unions in the U.S. colony of Puerto Rico marched in San Juan Dec. 5 to oppose the slashing of government payments for medical insurance by some $350 a month. Workers — still reeling…
DALLAS — Cop Amber Guyger was charged with murder Nov. 30 in the shooting here of 26-year-old Botham Jean on Sept. 6. Guyger, who entered Jean’s apartment as he was watching football, shot him twice. She claimed the killing was a…
Working people across the country were inspired by the Nov. 6 voting rights victory in Florida when an amendment to the state constitution was passed overwhelmingly, restoring the franchise to workers released from prison after serving time on felony convictions. …
Below are excerpts from In Defense of Socialism by Fidel Castro. The book contains four speeches by the central leader of the revolution given around the 30th anniversary of the 1959 Cuban Revolution. These speeches were given at the high…
December 20, 1993 Fleshing out President Bill Clinton’s campaign to “end welfare as we know it,” the administration’s task force on welfare reform has prepared draft legislation that will force most recipients to work at low wages after two years.…
Septuagenarian isn’t the issue The article “Join Socialist Workers Party Campaigning in Working Class” in the Dec. 10 issue of the Militant describes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as backing “Septuagenarian Nancy Pelosi” for speaker of the house, in a paragraph explaining why…
PARIS — In face of sustained mass, popular mobilizations from rural areas as well as working-class suburbs, French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced Dec. 4 a six-month suspension of the proposed hike in car fuel taxes. These proposed taxes were…
Around the world, a mood of angry revolt is spreading among the “people from nowhere” — workers, family farmers and the rural poor, those who never have a voice in the big business press. Whether wage slaves or debt slaves,…
