PORTLAND, Ore. — Hundreds of participants at the 2023 Portland Book Festival, held at the Portland Art Museum, came to the table featuring the Militant and books from Pathfinder Press. Many were drawn to books by Socialist Workers Party leaders…
OAKLAND, Calif. — Margaret Trowe, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress in District 12, and her supporters attended a meeting of the school board here Nov. 8. It was called to discuss a draft resolution the board was putting…
COMMERCE, Calif. — Six hundred warehouse workers at Smart & Final grocery chain in the distribution center here and in Riverside went on strike Nov. 1. After Teamsters Local 630 overwhelmingly won union elections there last spring, the company announced…
LOS ANGELES — “Free the hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza” was the demand of some 400 students and others who joined a rally and march at the University of California at Los Angeles campus here Nov. 7. Tables…
MONTREAL — “Our community has 250 years of history in Quebec. We are proud, we are Quebecers, we’re not going anywhere. This campaign of terror against us will not succeed,” Eta Yudin, Quebec vice president at the Centre for Israel…
Heading to the Washington, D.C., national protest in support of Israel and against Jew-hatred, on the train from Dulles Airport, I and fellow Socialist Workers Party member Sam Manuel struck up a discussion with Julie Lippman and her son. They…
Statement by Naomi Craine, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress from Illinois, Nov. 15. Hamas’ bloody pogrom in Israel, orchestrated by Tehran, was the most deadly massacre of Jews since the Nazi extermination of 6 million people in the…
MONTREAL — Some 420,000 public workers went on strike for the first time Nov. 6, demanding a new contract with the Quebec government. A majority of them are health and education workers united in a Common Front of four union…
ALSIP, Ill. — Sixty mechanics, parts-counter workers and other members of International Association of Machinists Mechanics’ Union Local 701 went out on strike at M&K Truck Centers in this south Chicago suburb Nov. 1. They are pushing back against the…
COVENTRY, England — Beginning Nov. 7, 1,000 Amazon workers at the distribution center here carried out a three-day strike, fighting for union recognition and a wage raise. The members of the General Municipal and Boilermakers union announced they will walk…
