Chevron oil workers vote to end California strike

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022

RICHMOND, Calif. — After 10 weeks on strike, hundreds of workers at the Chevron refinery here voted May 27-28 to accept the latest company offer and return to work. The contract was similar to the one they rejected twice, before…


UK rail workers demand bosses rehire fired unionist

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022

MANCHESTER, England — Rail bosses’ attempt to fire union fighter Peter Clifford here is being met by a strong response from workers and their union determined to win his job back. A statement from Clifford’s Rail, Maritime and Transport union…


Apple workers in Shanghai protest brutal lockdown

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022

Fed up with strict COVID-19 lockdown restrictions imposed in Shanghai by the Chinese rulers over the past two months, workers at Quanta, a Taiwanese-owned plant that makes MacBook laptops, have organized protests against the conditions they face. This has included…


Protests demand ‘End US economic war against Cuba!’

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022

Over 100 people rallied at the Miami International Airport, above, May 29, after participating in a 42-car caravan through the city demanding an end to the U.S. economic war against Cuba and for lifting Washington’s restrictions on travel to the…



Cuban farmers celebrate 1959 agrarian reform, revolution

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022

From very early in the morning farmers in Cuba held political events and festivities around the island to celebrate the 63rd anniversary of the First Agrarian Reform law. The May 17, 1959, act, more than any other, defined the character…


Oberlin College tries again to overturn Gibsons’ victory

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022

Oberlin College officials filed an appeal with the Ohio Supreme Court May 13 following two consecutive losses both in a jury trial and in the state Court of Appeals in the case brought by the Gibson family, owners of the…


Workers need our own party, a labor party!

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022

Without a political party of our own, working people lack an essential instrument we need to defend our class interests on all the questions we face — from our struggles with the bosses to solidarity with Ukrainian toilers against Moscow’s…



US gov’t, Seoul announce new provocations against NKorea

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022

President Joseph Biden embarked on his first visit to South Korea May 20-22, where he and newly elected South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol announced plans to expand provocative joint war games and to push increased economic sanctions against North…