NEW YORK — Mayor Bill de Blasio announced in April the city plans to slash $16 million in funding for public libraries in 2020. The cuts will mean another round of reduced hours and staffing here. This won’t only hit…
When long-time reader Ray Parsons sent us the clipping that this article is based on, he commented it “illustrates that yes, it’s the working class that is the real defender of learning and culture. A point that the Socialist Workers…
SEATTLE — On May 1 dozens of construction workers here marched on their lunch hour to Google’s new “campus” on downtown Mercer Street, where two workers and two others were killed when a crane tower came down April 27. Ironworkers…
LOS ANGELES — Chanting “Hey, Cedars, you’re no good. Treat your workers like you should!” hundreds of hospital workers held an all-day picket line at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center here May 1. Many took the day off or came during breaks…
DELAVAN, Wis. — While federal and state officials continue to drag their feet delivering help to those hit hard by March’s flooding in Nebraska and Iowa, farmers and others in rural communities in the Midwest are organizing solidarity and aid.…
A three-day Active Workers Conference sponsored by the Socialist Workers Party June 13-15 in Oberlin, Ohio, will bring hundreds of workers, youth and other participants together from across the U.S. and around the world, active in political struggles, to learn…
CAIMITO, Cuba — Some 320 members of the May Day brigade to Cuba from 21 countries took part in voluntary labor shoulder to shoulder with farmers here April 24, to boost production. This was one of the activities they joined…
This week’s Books of the Month excerpt is from The Long View of History, a pamphlet by George Novack. The author of a number of titles on U.S. working-class history and Marxist philosophy, Novack was a member and leader of…
Join the final two weeks of our Spring drive to expand the readership of the Militant and revolutionary books and help fund the paper! The Militant is a unique voice speaking in the interests of working people. Recent issues raised…
Even though the Florida state prison system’s Literature Review Committee knows that the Militant appeals every attempt to ban the paper, the committee violated its own rules to rush and uphold the impoundment of two issues before the paper had…
