The following statement was issued Aug. 28 by Seth Galinsky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City public advocate. Working people from New York and Puerto Rico to the coalfields of Appalachia and the Powder River Basin face attacks…
YABUCOA, Puerto Rico — When she returned to what was left of her home in the small El Negro neighborhood overlooking the sea after Hurricane Maria in September 2017, Yasmin Morales looked up at the nearby hills. “There wasn’t a…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Coal miners laid off July 1 by bankrupt Blackjewel Coal have vowed to maintain their encampment on railroad tracks in Cumberland, Harlan County, to prevent coal bosses from moving coal out of the Cloverlick No. 3 mine.…
The owners and editors at the New York Times, long one of the capitalist rulers’ central media outlets, are in the midst of a wrenching shift in the “story” they try to peddle daily. For the last three years, like…
“It’s only by organizing a fighting workers’ movement and using union power that we can prevent the bosses from poisoning the air, water and soil,” Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Atlanta School Board, told Belinda Aycock who was…
In the face of growing support for the fight against the censorship of the Militant, Florida prison officials have rescinded the ban on five issues of the socialist newsweekly. All those who support the right of prisoners to read literature…
Following months of airstrikes by the Syrian regime and its ally in Moscow, the government of Bashar al-Assad has retaken some key areas in Idlib province that have been under the control of opponents of his dictatorial rule for the…
The Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is threatening to eliminate its current limit of slaughtering 1,106 hogs per hour in the nation’s pork packing plants and turn inspection there over to the company bosses. This is an…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Some 20,000 workers, members of Communications Workers of America District 3, went on strike against AT&T in nine states Aug. 24-27. They included technicians, customer service representatives and others who install, maintain and support AT&T’s residential and…
EULESS, Texas — Several hundred airline catering workers employed at LSG Skychefs from cities across the country joined a lively informational picket line near the American Airlines headquarters outside the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Aug. 13. The unionists, members of…
