BURNABY, British Columbia — “Ten months on the picket line is too long!” UNITE HERE Local 40 member Lisa Secretaria told 40 locked-out workers at the Hilton Vancouver Metrotown Hotel here Feb. 14. It’s a favorite destination for weddings in…
SAN FRANCISCO — Chanting “Staff it up or we’ll shut it down!” over 500 city workers held a spirited lunchtime rally Feb. 16 outside City Hall here. The central demand was for city officials to hire more workers. Eight unions…
The ousting of three liberal members of the San Francisco school board in a recall election Feb. 15 is one more reflection of the political crisis wracking the capitalist rulers. After years of watching board members attempting to foist their…
President Emmanuel Macron announced the withdrawal of French troops from Mali Feb. 17 after a nine-year failed effort to crush Islamist terrorist groups operating there and in other former French colonies. This comes on top of growing political instability, including…
MONTREAL — “The sweeping police operation carried out under the anti-working-class Emergencies Act against the three-week protest in Ottawa, Canada’s capital, by truckers and others opposed to vaccine mandates is an assault on the political rights of all working people,”…
Members of the Socialist Workers Party have been building on the momentum of the recently concluded successful renewal campaign to introduce the paper and the party’s election campaign to workers and farmers at plant gates, strike picket lines, political events…
DAVENPORT, Iowa — “It’s a wonderful feeling to be in a room with 242 union members and 98% vote to go on strike and reject the company’s ‘first, last, best and final offer,’” striker Scott Lang told this Militant worker-correspondent…
Russian President Vladimir Putin Feb. 21 declared that the Moscow-backed “People’s Republics” of Donetsk and Luhansk set up in Ukraine in 2014 were independent countries and ordered Russian troops to go in as “peacekeepers.” The Kremlin’s invasion is backed by…
SANTA FE SPRINGS, Calif. — Some 200 people rallied here Feb. 12 in support of striking bakery workers, members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 37, at Rich’s Jon Donaire Desserts factory. “I’ve been working for Jon…
NEW YORK — Nov. 30 and Dec. 8, 2021, marked the 80th anniversary of the Nazi execution by firing squad of 25,000 Jews in the Rumbula Forest outside Riga, Latvia. It was the beginning of the Holocaust in that Baltic…
