We’ve done the Band-Aid,” Mike Byrne, Puerto Rico coordinator for the U.S. rulers’ Federal Emergency Management Agency, told the press in early April. “We’ve patched the [electrical] system back together.” Some patch! At least 100,000 people are still without power…
Under the U.S. capitalist “justice” system, hundreds of thousands of working people are incarcerated without having been convicted of any crime, the vast majority stuck behind bars for days, months or years because they can’t afford bail. The United States…
Protest actions were held in Israel March 31 and April 1 against Israeli army attacks that killed at least 15 Palestinian demonstrators and wounded hundreds of Gaza Strip residents. They were marching on the border to challenge the Israeli blockade…
“We can’t stop protesting until the landfill is shut down,” Volokolamsk resident Alexander Lvov told the Moscow Times. People in this town of 23,000, about 80 miles from Moscow, have been demanding a halt to the use of the landfill…
Unionists protest in San Juan March 26 against anti-worker measures pushed by Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló. His labor “reform” bill would over time cut sick and vacation days in half for private and public workers, lengthen probation for new…
The victorious strike by teachers and other school workers in West Virginia, and the preparations put in place beforehand to effectively organize it, unified workers and built a broad social movement. School workers were inspired by the history of independent…
“This was the first time a group of Israeli settlers ever came to talk with us,” Eid Abu-Khamis, a leader of Bedouins fighting eviction from the West Bank village of Khan al-Ahmar, told the Militant by phone March 12. Some…
Hundreds of thousands marched in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 8, International Women’s Day, to demand the right of women to choose abortion. The march was organized by the National Campaign for the Right to Safe, Legal and Free Abortion, a…
Russian President Vladimir Putin seeks to sustain the gains the country’s capitalist rulers have made in extending their influence through Moscow’s military intervention in the Mideast and Ukraine without provoking unrest at home. The U.S. rulers want to push back…
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced March 1 that Russia is developing new nuclear weapons that he says are capable of evading U.S. missile defenses. This comes shortly after the Pentagon said it would produce nuclear-tipped sea-launched cruise missiles. The U.S.…
