CHICAGO — More than 40 people gathered outside the Daley Center here Feb. 25 to demand that Chief Judge Timothy Evans intervene in the case of Gerald Reed. Reed is in jail on “evidence” extracted though torture in 1990 by…
Thousands turned out for events in Puerto Rico over three days to honor independence fighter, partisan of the Cuban Revolution and uncompromising internationalist Rafael Cancel Miranda. He died March 2 at 89 at his home in San Juan. Cancel Miranda…
NEW YORK — “A people aiming to build a society based on solidarity” — that’s what Cuba’s socialist revolution represents, said Enrique Ubieta, author of Red Zone: Cuba and the Battle Against Ebola in West Africa. He was addressing a…
Hundreds of students protested Feb. 18 less than 24 hours after Oberlin College President Carmen Twillie Ambar announced that the university plans to lay off 108 union workers and contract their jobs out. Many workers facing the layoffs joined the…
“We’re on the picket line standing up to violations and abuse of workers and the environment by Asarco,” Eduardo Placencio, recording secretary of striking United Steelworkers Local 937 at the Mission Mine south of Tucson, told the Militant by phone…
SEATTLE — With the spread of coronavirus, working people are facing new problems caused by capitalism’s for-profit health system, growing economic dislocations and the rulers’ insistence that workers are on their own in finding ways to get food and supplies.…
Many workers are looking for ways to change years of declining real wages, worsening working conditions and the many abuses the bosses and their governments bring down on us. But Democrats and Republicans tussling for the White House –— Bernie…
As the spread of coronavirus disease continues worldwide, stock prices have plunged more than any time since the 2008 global financial crisis, reflecting growing concerns among capitalist investors about the effect of the outbreak. World economic growth has begun to…
ALBANY, N.Y. — Larry Quinn, a 20-year cadre of the Socialist Workers Party, died March 6 after a battle with cancer. He was a longtime participant and leader in the solidarity movement in the U.S. with the Irish freedom struggle.…
The following message to María de los Ángeles Vázquez and Rafael Cancel Vázquez, widow and son of Puerto Rican independence fighter Rafael Cancel Miranda, was sent by Jack Barnes, National Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, for the SWP National…
