The outcome of the U.S. elections has done nothing to deter the bosses from putting the crisis of their capitalist system onto the backs of working people. And it has done nothing to quell workers’ determination to use unions to…
Red Zone: Cuba and the Battle Against Ebola in West Africa by Enrique Ubieta Gómez is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. Earlier Ubieta visited remote areas of Central and Latin America and the Caribbean to cover…
MONTREAL — Within days of the port bosses locking out some 1,900 unionized longshore workers in British Columbia and Quebec, the government responded to cries by boss associations across the country to act and stepped in Nov. 12, ordering the…
WREXHAM, North Wales — Several hundred Unite union members at Oscar Mayer rallied here Nov. 8, one of almost daily actions marking their determination to win their nine-week strike. The walkout began after the large majority East European workforce was…
DALLAS — On Nov. 9 fired dancers and 65 supporters picketed at the Dallas Black Dance Theatre’s performances put on with nonunion replacements. In May when the dancers voted to join the American Guild of Musical Artists union, the theatre…
BRAMPTON, Ontario — Some 1,200 city workers, members of Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 831, went on strike here Nov. 7. “Bargaining began on March 31, but there has been little progress,” union President Fabio Gazzola told CBC. He said the…
LITHONIA, Ga. — “We’re striking for better pay and benefits and against unfair treatment by supervisors,” Myra Williams, a union representative for United Auto Workers Local 472, told these Militant worker-correspondents outside the Woodbridge Corp. plant here Nov. 8. “Safety…
Based on false claims that the U.S. Supreme Court Dobbs’ ruling in 2022 threatened to make women’s right to choose to have an abortion illegal nationwide, Democrats put initiatives on the ballot in 10 states this year to “enshrine” abortion…
Nurses and other health care workers at hospitals in at least 17 cities held protests or took strike action leading up to and on Iran’s National Nurses Day Nov. 7. They are protesting low wages, mandatory overtime, understaffing and poor…
WASHINGTON — Several thousand people joined in “Stand Together,” a Nov. 10 rally and concert to defend Israel’s right to exist, to demand Hamas release the hostages it has held for over a year and to fight against antisemitism. The…
