July 7, 1997 LONDON — Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and chief negotiator Martin McGuinness were elected May 1 to the U.K. Parliament. In response to the gains made by the Republicans in the recent elections, London briefly reopened bilateral…
NEWARK, N.J. — The 350 nurses and technicians at St. Michael’s Medical Center here, members of JNESO Council 1 International Union of Operating Engineers, struck May 23 for a decent contract. “During negotiations, management has demonstrated a lack of willingness…
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…
Below is a letter initiated by farmer Willie Head from Pavo, Georgia. It was signed by farmers and farm families in the U.S. and two from Canada. May 10, 2022 Greetings to National Association of Small Farmers of Cuba (ANAP)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The assassination in Tehran May 22 of Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, an operative of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Quds Force, widely believed to have been carried out by Israel’s spy and counterterrorism agency Mossad, has ratcheted up tensions in the Middle…
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…
