ARVADA, Colo. — The strike by some 8,400 United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 members against the giant Kroger’s grocery chain King Soopers remains strong, with picket lines set up here and throughout the greater Denver area, from Boulder…
WORCESTER, Mass. —Nurses organized by the Massachusetts Nurses Association at St. Vincent Hospital struck the Tenet-owned facility here for 10 months. On Jan. 3 they voted 487-9 to ratify a contract that provides for a limit of four patient assignments…
Rising prices — especially on food, gas, rent and other necessities — are wreaking havoc with the lives of millions of working people. Strikes and other struggles by workers and their unions today for wage raises include demands for cost-of-living…
“I didn’t realize what was going on with the unions until I met the Militant,” Derrick McCrary told Susan LaMont Jan. 8 outside his home in west Atlanta. “I was surprised to read about the strike at Kellogg’s. Always thought…
The U.S. capitalist rulers face a political crisis today. Neither of their historical political parties, the Democrats and Republicans, are capable of ruling with stability, and both are wracked by internal divisions that could lead to splits. This forces the…
Sixty-three years ago, after the U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista fled Cuba, Fidel Castro led the “Caravan of Freedom” from Santiago, in the east, to Havana, as part of the victorious rebel forces organizing workers and farmers to take political power…
Massive anti-government protests swept across Kazakhstan in Central Asia Jan. 2 reflecting deep anger among working people toward the regime that has ruled since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Claiming he faced an “attempted coup,” President Kassym-Jomart…
The six-week drive to win more than 300 current Militant readers to renew their subscriptions to the socialist newsweekly is off to a good start, with 68 renewals in hand. The goal is to win renewals from at least 20%…
PITTSBURGH — “Charge these officers now!” chanted 20 protesters outside the City-County Building here Dec. 17, demanding the cops who repeatedly stunned Jim Rogers with Tasers Oct. 13 be charged. Rogers died in the hospital the next day. His family…
The condensed excerpts below are taken from a Dec. 1, 1961, speech published rapidly by the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, which campaigned across the U.S. in defense of Cuba’s unfolding socialist revolution, under the title “Fidel Castro Speaks on…
