MANCHESTER, England — “The unions should fight for amnesty for all workers who the government says don’t have ‘proper’ papers,” Peter Clifford, Communist League candidate for Manchester City Council, told retired sewing machine operator Pam Grocock when he knocked on her door here March 11. “And workers born abroad should have the same…

HAVANA — One of the most interesting and lively stands at this year’s Havana International Book Fair, held in February, was organized by Cuba’s National Association of the Blind (ANCI).  The association regularly has a stand here, at Cuba’s largest cultural festival. This year they featured a daily program designed to promote participation…

WASHINGTON — Some 100 mostly Black farmers and their supporters from across the Southeast rallied at the White House here March 1, part of a campaign for long overdue government compensation for past discrimination. The protest came as part of two days of interviews, lobbying members of Congress and ongoing discussions and debates concerning lessons…

Workers with disabilities in Iran won a victory this month when the government finally deposited funds in the bank for their welfare payments and supplies, as well as what it owed to rehabilitation centers, including for physical therapy and wages for health care workers.  The victory comes after a series of protests since January organized by the…

After a year of waging a near-genocidal war against the Ukrainian people, Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to put a facade of legitimacy on his regime’s seizure of almost a fifth of the country. He went to Moscow-occupied areas of Ukraine for the first time since the war began. Putin visited Sevastopol in Crimea, the long-time home of the…

NEW YORK — “Fidel Castro used to tell us, ‘If we had given in just once to the demands of the imperialists, the Cuban Revolution would not exist today. What has stayed their hand is the heroism of our people — the imperialists know the price they would have to pay,’” said Osmayda Hernández, member of the National Secretariat of the Federation…

WASHINGTON — Socialist Workers Party members found interest in the party’s program and activities when they campaigned at a March 18 “Fund people’s needs, not the war machine” protest across from the White House.   The action was called by a coalition of Stalinist and radical groups that claim the Kremlin’s attempt to crush Ukraine is a…

The international campaign to expand the reach of the Militant — by getting 1,350 subscriptions, selling 1,350 books by Socialist Workers Party and other revolutionary leaders, and raising $165,000 — has gotten off to a good start. When Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Fort Worth, Texas, knocked on her door March 12…

HAVANA — An indication of the interest in revolutionary working-class politics among workers and youth visiting the Pathfinder stand at the Havana International Book Fair this February was the 31 who subscribed to the Militant. Volunteers at the Pathfinder bookstand called the subscribers later to get their impressions of the paper. Many said they…

CAMDEN, N.J. — Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey state Senate, along with Chris Hoeppner, SWP candidate for mayor of Philadelphia, and this Militant  reporter, visited the sanitation workers picket line here in solidarity March 4. The members of Teamsters Local 115 were glad to talk to us. The workers walked out Jan…

Weekly protests by retired workers in Iran that began Jan. 22 demanding the government raise social security payments to keep up with inflation continue. On March 12 and 13 retirees from the steel, telecommunications, sugar and other industries protested in at least a dozen provinces across the country. The minister of the economy recently said inflation…

MONTREAL — “Working people and our unions should oppose Premier Francois Legault’s anti-working-class campaign against immigrants. This is now centered on demanding that Ottawa shut down the unofficial Roxham Road crossing between Canada and the U.S. used by thousands of immigrants from Haiti, Mexico and the Middle East seeking a better life,”…

Below are excerpts from “Revolution, Counterrevolution and War in Iran, Social and Political Roots of Workers’ Protests That Swept 90 Cities and Small Towns,” from the Militant in April 2018. BY STEVE CLARK The historic Iranian Revolution of 1979 was a deep-going, modern, popular social revolution in city and countryside, not a religious jihad…

BRIDPORT, Vt. — “There were 42 dairy farms in this area in the 1980s,” 11th-generation dairy farmer Paul Plouffe told these two Militant  worker-correspondents when we visited his farm here Feb. 5. “Now there are just eight left, after a small organic farmer went bankrupt last year.” “I could sell my farm for more than a million,” Plouffe…

In an important victory for freedom of speech and the press, Florida prison authorities March 9 overturned a ban on the Militant’s Jan. 30 issue. They instructed officials at Blackwater River Correctional Facility to give the paper to subscribers of the socialist newsweekly there. The ban had been challenged by a broad outcry from defenders of constitutional…

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region, Iraq — Since the 15th Erbil International Book Fair kicked off March 8, tens of thousands have come looking for books on a wide range of topics — including history, politics, science, technology and religion — as well as novels, poetry and children’s books. This cultural event — held for the first time since 2019 due…

With this issue the international campaign begins to expand the reach of the Militant and books by Socialist Workers Party and other revolutionary leaders and to raise $165,000 for the paper. Members of the SWP and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada, and U.K. will be discussing their program and activities with workers and farmers at labor actions…

Democrats and Republicans are tied up in partisan squabbling over President Joseph Biden’s $6.8 trillion budget plan. While they disagree on Biden’s proposed social expenditures and new taxes to fund them, both parties agree on the need to allocate billions more to Washington’s war machine as the U.S. rulers face challenges from Beijing and Moscow…

After tens of thousands took to the streets in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, the country’s ruling party backed off its plans to impose a law that would curtail political rights and limit freedom of the press. Protesters say the bill was modeled after a 2012 Russian “foreign agents” law that allowed the Kremlin to ban unions and political organizations…

Angry parents, teachers and students protested across Iran March 7 in the face of widespread reports of poisoning by toxic gases of more than 1,000 students at over 125 primary and secondary girls schools in more than a dozen provinces over the last four months. No one has claimed responsibility and the government at first said little or that the reports…

MAUI, Hawaii — Over 500 hospital workers walked out and set up picket lines Feb. 22 at the Maui Memorial Medical Center, Kula Hospital and Lanai Community Hospital here. The strikers, members of United Public Workers Local 646, voted by 97% to reject the hospitals’ “last, best and final offer” after eight months of failed contract negotiations…

MONTREAL — Beverly Bernardo, Communist League candidate in the March 13 provincial by-election in the Montreal electoral constituency of Saint-Henri-Sainte-Anne, brought her fighting working-class program to some 65 people at a candidates’ debate Feb. 28, sponsored by the Solidarity Saint-Henri community organization. “Many of the questions we…