Hundreds of thousands of people rallied in Barcelona April 15, demanding the release and return to Catalonia of jailed leaders of pro-independence parties and groups who fled the country to escape charges and imprisonment. This was the latest protest against…
The remake of TV comedy “Roseanne,” coming 21 years after the last series ended, has incurred the wrath of liberal commentators and critics. The reason for their anger? The lead character, like the show’s creator Roseanne Barr, voted for President…
MONTREAL — Despite solidarity picket lines and other actions here, in Toronto and other Canadian cities April 13, Canadian Border Services Agency immigration cops deported 42-year-old Lucy Francineth Granados back to Guatemala. She had been living and working without papers…
May 10, 1993 KENNETT SQUARE, Pennsylvania — Representing labor, church, student and community groups, 500 people marched through this town April 24 in support of striking mushroom workers. The march followed by a rally at a park next to the…
Below is an excerpt from Lenin’s Struggle for a Revolutionary International, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. In September 1916 the last national conference of the united Socialist Democratic Party of Germany took place before it split.…
The article “Lessons of 1979-83 Grenada Revolution Debated in UK,” in issue no. 16 incorrectly said that Fidel Castro’s remarks about Bernard Coard’s “Pol Pot-type group” were presented at a rally in Havana. Castro’s remarks were presented in a 1985…
MINNEAPOLIS — “We’re striking for safety,” Todd Tucker, a 20-year driver for J.J. Taylor, Minnesota’s largest beer distributor, told Socialist Workers Party members and supporters when we joined their picket line here April 17. The 95 drivers, helpers and warehouse…
SUPERIOR, Ariz. — “My coach wears her ‘RedforEd’ T-shirt every day and wants to go on strike,” Korinna Romero, a player on the high school softball team here and the daughter of one of the area’s many copper miners, told…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — “I worked 69 hours last week. Some worked more,” bus driver Elizabeth Kaulima told the Militant on a picket line here outside Pavlovich Coachlines April 19. “We’re working long hours to try and make ends meet.…
The U.S. government is campaigning to toughen the deal signed by the Barack Obama administration and Tehran aimed at slowing down the Iranian rulers’ acquisition of nuclear weapons. The dispute occurs as the U.S. propertied rulers seek to constrain Tehran’s…
