January 19, 1998 PARIS — Three thousand people marched here January 7 demanding government relief for unemployed workers. Some of the demonstrators carried signs reading “jobs!” Workers have been occupying 26 unemployment offices throughout France with the protests spreading rapidly.…
George Bryant From his early 20s, to his death on Dec. 26 at 91 years old in a Wallaceburg, Ontario, nursing home, George Bryant was a supporter of the international communist movement and the Cuban Revolution. In the late 1950s,…
Sixty-four years ago, on Jan. 1, 1959, workers and farmers in Cuba brought down one of the bloodiest tyrannies in the Americas, the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, opening the door to making a socialist revolution. Led by Fidel Castro…
FORT WORTH, Texas — Three years after he shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson in her own home, police officer Aaron Dean was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 11 years, 10 months and 12 days in prison. He will have…
MONTREAL — Six weeks of mandatory public hearings on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government imposition of the never-before-used Emergencies Act concluded Nov. 25. The act aimed to crush the three-week-long truckers’ “Freedom Convoy” protest in Ottawa and at border-crossing…
