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Fall Campaign to sell Militant subscriptions and books (Final)

Disaster from Camp Fire is result of capitalist rule

CHICO, Calif. — It was raining heavily when Socialist Workers Party members from Oakland arrived at the Chico Walmart parking lot here Nov. 29. Our goal was to extend solidarity with survivors of the Camp Fire camped out here and…

Welcome to the 1,404 new readers of the ‘Militant’!

The Militant welcomes the 1,404 readers who subscribed over the last eight weeks! A final scoreboard on the drive to sell 1,400 subscriptions and an equal number of books on working-class politics by leaders of the Socialist Workers Party, along…

‘We won!’ Marriott hotel workers vote to end strike, return to work

SAN FRANCISCO — Marriott hotel workers here ended their strike Dec. 3, voting by 99.6 percent to accept a new four-year contract. The workers, members of UNITE HERE, kept picket lines strong for two months at seven of the city’s…

National coalition against censorship says stop Florida bans on ‘Militant’

The National Coalition Against Censorship and the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida have sent letters calling on Florida prison officials to cease their ongoing attempts to keep the socialist newsweekly Militant out of the hands of subscribers behind bars…

Moscow launches assault on Ukraine access to Sea of Azov

In an aggressive inflammation of tensions, the capitalist rulers in Moscow ordered Russian forces to fire on and seize three Ukrainian naval vessels, including a tugboat, and their crews as they tried to pass through the Kerch Strait Nov. 25…

Minn. Somali Amazon workers fight speedup, discrimination

East African workers, most originally from Somalia, employed at Amazon’s 20-football-field-long warehouse in Shakopee, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis, are leading a fight against jacked-up packing quotas. They have forced the company to negotiate. Some 60 percent of Amazon’s warehouse…

Canadian postal workers protest gov’t order to go back to work

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — After six weeks of rotating strike actions, the federal government Nov. 26 ordered some 50,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers back to work. The legislation rushed through made further strike action illegal.  “Christmas…

Striking Kentucky concrete workers fight bosses’ ‘final offer’

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The strike by 45 concrete workers, members of Teamsters Local 89 here at Allied Ready Mix, remains strong after eight weeks of picketing. The drivers, mechanics, loader operators and batchmakers walked out Oct. 8, after rejecting the…

Canadian nationalism, tariffs dead end for working farmers

MONTREAL — Should working farmers rely on the capitalist government to enact protectionist tariffs to defend their class interests?  This question was posed by the nationalist and protectionist political framework of the demonstration of 5,000 farmers and their supporters from…