Four teachers’ unions in Ghana, West Africa, went on strike July 4 after the government refused to pay teachers and nonteaching staff a cost-of-living allowance of at least 20% of their wages. Annual inflation in the country is now 27.6%.…
Sixty-one years after African anti-imperialist independence fighter Patrice Lumumba was assassinated, a gold-crowned tooth, the only part of his body that exists, was buried in a state funeral in the Democratic Republic of the Congo June 30. The date marked…
McCOOK, Ill. — Some 300 members of International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150 went on strike June 7 against three Chicago-area quarry companies — Lehigh Hanson, Vulcan Materials and Lafarge Holcim — over unfair labor practices. The local has…
STURTEVANT, Wis. — “I’m confident that the members of this local will continue to strike as long as the company keeps making ridiculous offers,” Yasin Mahdi, president of United Auto Workers Local 180, told the Militant June 17. “We’re going…
CICERO, Ill. — More than 100 delivery drivers for alcohol wholesaler Breakthru Beverage, members of Teamsters Local 710, walked out June 13. The central issues were “safety on the job, increasing load sizes, the inability of members to use their…
July 28, 1997 CORDOBA, Argentina — Since September, the Fiat plant in this city has been the scene of one of the most important labor battles in Argentina in a number of years. The workers are fighting for recognition of…
The special feature this week is excerpts from an interview Clara Zetkin did with V.I. Lenin in 1920, part of preparations for her drafting a resolution for communist work among women for the Third Congress of the Communist International a…
The following statement was released July 6 by Chris Hoeppner, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress from Pennsylvania. The working class needs its own foreign policy — in sharp counterposition to that of the profit-driven imperialist U.S. rulers —…
Les Teamsters en grève à Minneapolis se rassemblent avant de vaincre les policiers et les voyous à la solde des patrons lors de la « bataille de la débandade des policiers auxiliaires », du 21 au 22 mai 1934. Avec une direction…
