With hiring picking up, but still slowly, working people confront both large-scale joblessness, pressure on wages and working conditions, and the steepest price hikes in over a decade. The class-struggle road to changing these conditions starts from expanding solidarity with…
BROOKWOOD, Ala. — “We need national exposure for our strike,” Harold Young, a United Mine Workers of America union member on strike at Warrior Met Coal’s No. 4 mine, told the Militant on the picket line here May 16. Spreading…
Rocket attacks and shelling between Hamas and the Israeli government continued in mid-May, resulting in mounting civilian deaths, injuries, destruction of neighborhoods and displacement of families. Since officials of Gaza’s Islamist regime initiated the armed conflict May 10, Hamas and…
LOS ANGELES — The Socialist Workers Party in California announced May 15 that it will run Dennis Richter, a Walmart worker and party leader, for governor in a special election to decide who might replace Democratic Party governor Gavin Newsom…
For over five months about 200,000 farmers at a time have lived in three main protest encampments on roads into New Delhi, India’s capital, despite government efforts to use the rise in deaths from coronavirus to get them to leave.…
PORT-CARTIER, Quebec — After rejecting ArcelorMittal’s “final” offer, 2,500 iron ore miners and processing, rail, and office workers here and in Fermont went on strike May 10. “The stakes in our strike include wages, medical premiums, the retirement fund and working…
Charles Huber, the new chair of the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee, told Militant attorney David Goldstein May 14 that it is scheduled to review the decision of Century Correctional Institution prison authorities banning all five March issues…
Hiring is edging up as government coronavirus lockdowns are lifted and growing numbers of vaccinated workers rejoin the workforce. Better conditions are being created for workers to come together on the job to beat back attempts by the bosses to…
Prison officials are at it again! Five issues of the Militant have been banned in Florida and two in Indiana in violation of inmates’ constitutional rights and the right of the Militant to reach its subscribers behind bars. On May…
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Angered at the April 21 cop killing of Andrew Brown Jr., hundreds have joined daily peaceful protests in Elizabeth City, a majority-Black town on the North Carolina coast. Brown, an unarmed 42-year-old African American, was shot five…
