Led by Seattle school teacher Carlos Lazo, a group of Cuban Americans are walking more than 1,000 miles from Florida to Washington, D.C., to broaden opposition to the U.S. economic war against Cuba. As of July 13, they’re over halfway…
In recent weeks, large numbers of workers in the U.S. have gotten vaccinated and government lockdown orders have eased, leading to an increase in job offers and hiring, especially in low-paying jobs in the restaurant and hospitality industries. This has…
Protesters marched in several Iranian cities after widespread power outages caused havoc for workers and farmers. The demonstrations follow previous rounds of country-wide mobilizations in 2018 and since by working people fed up with the government’s military adventures abroad, ongoing…
On June 1 the government of Puerto Rico handed over management of the breakdown-plagued state-owned electric system to Luma Energy, a U.S.-Canadian joint venture. The electrical workers union, UTIER, and other opponents of the move organized protests across the island…
BRACKENRIDGE, Pa. — The United Steelworkers union is organizing meetings of striking unionists at Allegheny Technologies Inc. to discuss a tentative four-year agreement reached by union representatives with the company, prior to strikers voting whether to ratify the deal. Some…
Below is a statement sent to the Minneapolis Star Tribune July 1 by Doug Nelson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Minneapolis, and David Rosenfeld, SWP candidate for City Council Ward 12. They speak out against an act of…
Maya Forstater won a victory at London’s Employment Appeal Tribunal June 10 when it upheld her freedom of expression after she was dismissed from her job at the Center for Global Development for her defense of women’s rights. Bosses at…
SYDNEY — When immigration police arrested the Murugappan family, including two infant daughters, in a pre-dawn raid March 5, 2018, in Biloela, working people in the small central Queensland country town started a fight for their right to stay. Supporters…
Food-delivery workers in Kazakhstan — similar to those whose numbers are growing worldwide — are fighting to organize the first couriers’ union in the country. Some 200 workers are finalizing a charter, Zhenis Orynaliyev, the union chairperson, told openDemocracy June…
ATLANTA — “The Socialist Workers Party met the test of the capitalist crisis and pandemic over the past 15 months — in program and action,” SWP National Committee member Steve Clark told 50 people at a Militant Labor Forum here…
