BURLINGTON, Iowa — “We are not going anywhere!” United Auto Workers Local 807 strike captain Craig Bowen told the Militant at the picket line outside Case New Holland here on Labor Day. “And you can quote me on that.” “Yes,…
Thousands of people have rallied in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital city, and across the country Sept. 6 and since, demanding the government reverse a 30% jump in fuel prices it imposed amid soaring inflation in this country of 270 million people.…
ONEHUNGA, New Zealand — Wearing their firefighting gear, some 25 workers in the New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union led a protest march here Aug. 26, building support for their fight for a contract. The stoppage was part of a second…
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Some 15,000 members of the Minnesota Nurses Association began a three-day strike Sept. 12 at 15 hospitals in the Twin Cities and Duluth areas. They have been working without a contract since June 1. Hundreds picketed…
KENT, Wash. — Some 1,700 members of the Kent Education Association, the union that represents teachers in one of the largest school districts near Seattle, ended a 14-day strike Sept. 8. The new contract agreed to has not yet been…
SYDNEY — Nurses at public hospitals across New South Wales struck for 24 hours Sept. 1, fighting for a pay raise and increased staffing in their third strike this year. This time, the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association organized rallies…
Given the death of Queen Elizabeth II in the United Kingdom Sept. 8, and the widespread coverage in the big-business press worldwide of the pomp and circumstance that has followed, the Militant is reprinting an excerpt from Capitalism’s World Disorder:…
The 60th anniversary printing of October 1962: The ‘Missile’ Crisis as Seen from Cuba by Tomás Diez Acosta is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. This excerpt from the book’s preface tells how the Cuban people and…
FBI harassment of participants in the Juan Rius Rivera Brigade from Puerto Rico and other opponents of the U.S. economic war on Cuba is a serious threat to rights working people need in both Puerto Rico and the U.S. Labor…
LINCOLN, Neb. — Amid ongoing negotiations in Washington for a national contract between the main rail unions and bosses, two rail workers were killed on the job Sept. 8. The two were on a Union Pacific freight train that collided…
