MONTREAL — Artists, performers, writers, political figures in Quebec and others are speaking out against a campaign here to censor the work of artists they accuse of “cultural appropriation.” “SLAV,” shown as part of the Montreal International Jazz Festival, is…
Below are excerpts from What Is to Be Done? by V.I. Lenin. It was published in March 1902 and discusses what kind of party is needed to lead the workers and farmers to overthrow the capitalist rulers and take political…
After more than 16 hours of debate, with tens of thousands of protesters gathered outside on both sides of the issue, Argentina’s Senate Aug. 9 in a 38-31 vote defeated a bill that would have legalized abortion in the first…
In a blatant attack on democratic rights and an individual’s right to privacy, the Transportation Security Administration has been running a secret spy program targeting thousands of passengers on U.S. domestic flights. The existence of this “Quiet Skies” surveillance program,…
The fight continues against the move by prison authorities at the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ medium security facility in Greenville, Illinois, to ban the Militant. Authorities there have prevented a subscriber from getting the paper since the June 11 issue.…
A new round of protests and strikes are unfolding across Iran, following the working-class-led protests that took place in late December and early January. They’re fueled above all by the impact on the working class of the wars conducted by…
Washington and Pyongyang continue to take steps to implement the agreement for the “denuclearization” of the Korean Peninsula reached at the June 12 summit in Singapore between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The agreement is…
NEW YORK — Although Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega still drapes himself in the symbols of the 1979 Sandinista Revolution, the government he heads is a capitalist government, Socialist Workers Party leader Róger Calero told participants at the Militant Labor Forum…
August 23, 1993 PERCY, Illinois — On July 27 another 1,000 miners joined the United Mine Workers of America strike for a contract. This was the eighth expansion of the national coal strike, which began May 10. There are now…
“The company thought they could make us come crawling back on our knees. That will never happen,” Patrick Rochette, a member of United Steelworkers Local 9700, told Communist League candidate Beverly Bernardo and campaign supporters on the picket line at…
