With dozens of warships and planes, and thousands of U.S. troops deployed to Puerto Rico, in the Caribbean and the Pacific coast, the Trump administration is beating the war drums threatening military action to topple the Nicolás Maduro government in…
EDMONTON, Alberta — On Oct. 28 the United Conservative Party provincial government here voted to order 51,000 Alberta teachers, members of the Alberta Teachers’ Association on strike since Oct. 6, back to work. It ordered classes to resume the next…
Join the Militant in fighting to reverse the impoundment of two issues of the paper — no. 28, impounded in September, and no. 36, a month later — by the Missouri Department of Corrections. No substantive reason is given for…
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly Oct. 29 adopted a resolution by an overwhelming margin calling on Washington to end its more than six-decade-long economic war against Cuba. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez reported that “over the past weeks…
SAN FRANCISCO — Airline cabin cleaners picketed at the San Francisco International Airport Oct. 22 against the suspension of 14 workers by Unifi, the contractor that hires cleaners for United Airlines planes. The suspended workers, members of SEIU United Service…
BIRMINGHAM, England — Seven months into their strike at the council-run refuse depots here, hundreds of refuse workers, members of Unite the Union, are winning the support of temporary workers hired by agencies to fill their jobs. “A growing number…
Washington’s bombing of boats it claims are running drugs off the coast of Venezuela, and its threats to overthrow the Nicolás Maduro government, are an attack on the country’s national sovereignty. They take place as conflicts between Washington and Beijing…
October 30, 2000 BENTON, Illinois — Nearly 500 people, mostly retired members of the United Mine Workers of America and their wives, attended a meeting here Oct. 13 to demand the government keep its promise to coal miners to provide…
MONTREAL — “We will not be intimidated and ruled by threats that attempt to force us back to work,” Alberta Teachers Association President Jason Schilling told an Oct. 17 news conference, referring to pressure by the government to compel them…
