CHICAGO — A concerted effort is underway by supporters of Hamas to take advantage of widespread liberal media coverage of destruction in Gaza to get union officials to sign on to calls for Israel to agree to a cease-fire. This…
NEW YORK— “The tremendous advances for women in Cuba have their roots in the revolution that triumphed on Jan. 1, 1959,” Osmayda Hernández said at a March 16 meeting here. Hernández, a member of the national leadership of the Federation…
MONTREAL — Common Front Quebec union federations representing 420,000 public sector employees, including hospital, education workers and teachers, announced Feb. 23 that union members had voted by 75% to accept a new contract with a wage increase of 17.4% over…
LONDON — TV personality India Willoughby asked police in Northumbria to arrest author J.K. Rowling for alleged “transphobia,” claiming that her online remarks were a “hate crime.” At stake for working people is the defense of crucial free speech rights,…
FORT WORTH, Texas — Over 300 workers joined a spirited Teamsters Local 997 rally outside the Molson Coors brewery here March 17, marking one month on strike by 420 union members. The rally was too big to hold on the…
Thousands of farmers in India are marching toward New Delhi protesting government attacks on their livelihoods. They’re encamped at multiple points along the way, with armed forces deployed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to block them from reaching the…
The international spring campaign to increase the readership of the Militant, get out books by leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and other revolutionaries, and to raise funds for the paper is underway! Join in! Get the paper to your…
The battle to prevent another pogrom by Tehran-backed Hamas continues. During the Oct. 7 pogrom in Israel 1,200 were killed, more than 5,000 wounded and over 250 hostages forced into Gaza. It was the worst massacre of Jews since the…
The mounting pressure by the Joseph Biden administration and other imperialist powers to impose a long-term cease-fire on Israel, putting on ice its battle to destroy the military capacity of Hamas, ignores the avowed intentions of this reactionary group —…
