Rolls-Royce workers end strike, ‘will win more in future fights’

Vol. 86/No. 36 - October 3, 2022

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…


Thousands protest in Haiti as gasoline price doubles

Vol. 86/No. 36 - October 3, 2022
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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.…


French book fair: ‘We absolutely have to change the world’

Vol. 86/No. 36 - October 3, 2022

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…


Canada Communist League candidates protest deportations

Vol. 86/No. 36 - October 3, 2022
Katy LeRougetel, Communist League candidate for Quebec’s National Assembly in Montreal, talks with Mamadou Konate Sept. 18 at action protesting deportation of immigrant workers.

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.…


Washington seized Puerto Rico, denied constitutional rights

Vol. 86/No. 36 - October 3, 2022

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…


Chicago bakery workers bring solidarity to Iowa strikers

Vol. 86/No. 36 - October 3, 2022

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…



Death of woman arrested by Iran ‘morality police’ stirs protest

Vol. 86/No. 36 - October 3, 2022
Death of woman arrested by Iran ‘morality police’ stirs protest

Protests spread in Iran after Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died Sept. 16 in Tehran. She was detained by the widely hated morality police — “Guidance Patrols” — three days earlier, along with other women, for allegedly violating the…


Home nursery workers in Jerusalem demand pay hike

Vol. 86/No. 36 - October 3, 2022
Home nursery workers strike for higher pay, better working conditions in Jerusalem Sept. 1.

Home nursery workers demonstrated in Jerusalem Sept. 1, part of a one-day strike demanding higher pay and better work conditions. The action was organized by the National Union of Day Care Workers, which has some 3,000 members — predominantly Jewish…


Patient care, working conditions led to nursing home strike

Vol. 86/No. 36 - October 3, 2022

PITTSBURGH — Workers from 13 of the 14 nursing homes in Pennsylvania took down their picket lines Sept. 9 after a week on strike. SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, their union, reached a tentative agreement with Comprehensive Healthcare and Priority Healthcare. The…