MINNEAPOLIS — A crowd of several hundred members of Service Employees International Union and their supporters picketed outside Abbott Northwestern Hospital here April 7 in support of the union’s demand for a new contract. When union members chanted, “When we…
HASTINGS, England — “The first thing you need to know is that the commercial fishing industry is divided between those fishing from boats shorter or longer than 10 meters,” Paul Joy told Andrés Mendoza, Communist League candidate for London mayor…
Contributors to the Socialist Workers Party “stimulus” appeal from the $1,400 U.S. government payments are setting the appeal on course toward $120,000! As we go to press $98,700 has been donated by 77 individuals. From Pittsburgh, Tony Lane wrote with…
AMARILLO, Texas — Gerardo Sánchez, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Dallas City Council, and a team of campaign supporters spoke with a wide range of workers during a campaign visit here March 31 to April 1. “Workers in Dallas, in…
“At the center of my campaign has been getting support for workers on strike at the Queen’s Road bus depot,” Peter Clifford, right, Communist League candidate for mayor of Greater Manchester, said in an online-candidates debate March 31. Clifford is…
TAMPA, Fla. — Some 40 people, mostly Cuban Americans, joined a car caravan here March 28, part of protests in the U.S. and around the world demanding the U.S. government end its nearly 60-year embargo against Cuba. The action was…
Sixty-eight years ago, Dr. Jonas Salk announced he had successfully developed a vaccine for polio, which has saved millions of lives. Unlike the big pharmaceutical companies that place patents on drugs they market — to jack up the prices and…
WORCESTER, Mass. — “This strike isn’t about the money, it’s about safe care,” Bill Lahey, a nurse for 44 years at St. Vincent Hospital here, told Joe Allen and myself, two rail workers who came to show solidarity from Albany,…
Statement by Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party Texas state campaign chair, April 7. Solidarity is needed now to strengthen the strike by 1,300 steelworkers at Allegheny Technologies Inc., 200 locked-out oil refinery workers facing off with Marathon Petroleum bosses in…
Members of the United Mine Workers voted April 9 to reject the tentative agreement reached with the owners of Warrior Met Coal April 5. The strike continues. BROOKWOOD, Ala. – More than 1,100 United Mine Workers of America members struck…
