NEW YORK — Milagros Rivera, president of the Cuba Solidarity Committee of Puerto Rico, will be in New York City Oct. 27 to 29 on a speaking tour to strengthen the fight against FBI harassment of opponents of the U.S.…
On April 26, 1986, an explosion blew apart the top of reactor No. 4 at the Soviet nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, in Ukraine, releasing huge amounts of radiation into the atmosphere. More than 2,000 square miles of Ukraine, Belarus…
Statement by Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of Texas, Sept. 21. The Socialist Workers Party hails the resistance of Ukrainian working people and calls for the defeat of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invading forces. We stand with…
Protests spread in Iran after Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died Sept. 16 in Tehran. She was detained by the widely hated morality police — “Guidance Patrols” — three days earlier, along with other women, for allegedly violating the…
NEW YORK — Some 80 people participated in a spirited march and rally in East Harlem Aug. 27, protesting the over 60-year U.S. embargo of Cuba. The rally met at the First Spanish Methodist Church, known as the People’s Church,…
BY MARTÍN KOPPEL, SETH GALINSKY AND MARY-ALICE WATERS NEW YORK — After more than two years of debate involving millions of Cubans, a nationwide referendum will be held Sept. 25 to vote “yes” or “no” on a new Families Code.…
UNITED NATIONS — “The first program for equality that Cuban women won was the revolution itself,” Teresa Amarelle, general secretary of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), told the Militant during an interview here in March. “The struggle isn’t over…
On Aug. 9 the Supreme Court of Ohio granted Oberlin College a stay from having to pay damages long owed the Gibson family until the court can review a pending appeal filed by the school. Attorneys for the Gibson…
FAIRFIELD, Texas — Steers crowd under trees in parched brown pasture and mileslong lines of ranchers queue at the auction house here to sell off cattle they can no longer afford to feed. Texas faces the worst drought since 2011.…
Ignoring opposition by a united labor movement, the Ukrainian parliament is taking advantage of Moscow’s invasion and martial law conditions, which ban strikes and protests, to pass anti-labor laws long sought by the country’s bosses. Crafted by the capitalist government…
