CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — “These checks are for contributions by workers at two Alpha Baking plants in Chicago. We took up a collection because your strike is so important to defend the gains we have won over the years,” said…
As Washington announced its emergence as an imperialist power by seizing a series of Spanish colonies in the 1898 Spanish-American War, the U.S. Supreme Court over the next few years sharply limited constitutional rights and protections for residents of the…
MONTREAL — Two hundred people marched here Sept. 18 under the slogan “Status for all,” calling on the Canadian government to grant permanent resident status to all undocumented migrants in the country. The action was part of a cross-Canada mobilization.…
BRETIGNY-SUR-ORGE, France — “I’m happy to buy this book. We absolutely have to change this world, but first we have to understand it,” said Marie Dechelle, a computer science student in Paris, as she bought the French edition of the…
Thousands have taken to the streets in Haiti over the last three weeks since the government announced the price of gasoline would more than double. Protesters blocked roads throughout the capital, Port-au-Prince. Schools and businesses closed as streets were blocked.…
MONTREAL — The 530 members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) at Rolls-Royce Canada, who repair and overhaul aircraft engines, decided by a vote of 62% Sept. 1 to accept a conciliator’s report and end their hard-fought five-and-a-half-month…
Statement by Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of Texas, Sept. 21. The Socialist Workers Party hails the resistance of Ukrainian working people and calls for the defeat of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invading forces. We stand with…
Members of the Socialist Workers Party — and Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K. — are going out to workers’ doorsteps, union picket lines, labor movement events and protest actions to discuss conditions confronting workers and farmers today,…
“Once again we’re resisting the onslaught,” Lenis Rodríguez said by phone from Yabucoa, one of the hardest hit areas in the eastern part of the U.S. colony of Puerto Rico Sept. 20. He was referring to hurricanes Fiona, which made…
LINCOLN, Neb. — In the next several weeks, nearly 100,000 union rail workers will vote on tentative agreements negotiated by rail union officials on the one side and five Class 1 rail companies and 30 local railroad bosses, organized together…
