PLANT CITY, Fla. — Dennis Richter, left, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, talks with Plant City farmer Karl Butts, Oct. 17. One hundred mph winds from recent storms wreaked havoc on what only two weeks earlier had…
Despite attempts by the reactionary capitalist regime in Iran to whip up support among working people for its escalating confrontation with Israel and convince workers now is not the time for protests, growing numbers of workers are taking to the…
MONTREAL — Port and railroad union members in Quebec and across Canada are fighting for better pay to cope with high prices and more livable schedules. On Oct. 7, Longshoremen’s Union Local 375, an affiliate of Canadian Union of Public…
The attempts by liberals and the middle-class left to eradicate Columbus Day, a national holiday in October since 1937, honoring 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus, along with statues and other tributes to Columbus, stepped up this year. These ahistorical political forces…
BOSTON — The “Make them pay!” chants, blaring air horns and drumming of the UNITE HERE Local 26 strikers can be heard blocks away from the Downtown Theater District here. Three weeks into their strike at the Hilton Park Plaza…
“This is a great economy,” Heather Long gushed in a feature Washington Post op-ed column Oct. 10. “We are living through one of the best economic years of many people’s lifetimes,” she insisted. It’s a “miracle.” Really? This isn’t the…
Over the past two weeks, postal workers — members of the American Postal Workers Union, National Association of Letter Carriers and National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association — have organized protest actions across the country against the government, which has refused…
MIAMI — Working people in the southeastern part of the United States have been hit by two devastating hurricanes in less than two weeks. The first, Hurricane Helene, cut a swath of destruction from landfall near Tampa Bay into the…
MINNEAPOLIS — Close to 100 members of National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 9 and their supporters rallied in front of the main post office here Oct. 14. The action was part of a series of coordinated protests mounted by…
DALLAS — “Tear up your ticket, join our picket!” and “Dallas Black, bring them back!” were two of the spirited chants by 50 pickets backing the fired Dallas Black Dancers here Oct. 11. They were protesting at the Dallas Black…
