Intensified national rivalries and conflicts spreading around the world overshadowed the 29th United Nations climate conference, COP29, held in Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 11-24. The annual summit — where prominent capitalist figures burnish their green credentials — was marked by the…
BOSTON — Striking teachers in three North Shore cities are back at work, ending two and half weeks of walkouts involving over 1,400 workers. Substantial gains were won in pay and parental leave by the three unions. To do so,…
Underlying the turmoil that brought down the French government Dec. 4 was its inability to strengthen the position of the country’s capitalist ruling families in the face of an economic downturn across Europe that is fueling sharper competition with their…
Throughout the U.S., working people are being hit by outrageous rents that eat up disproportionate amounts of families’ household income. Residential rents have increased at least 20% nationwide since 2020, with more than half of working people paying over 30%…
Claiming working people face the imminent danger of fascism taking power — in France, Hungary, Italy, Argentina and the U.S. — Stalinist parties of all stripes, Social Democrats and middle-class radicals are resurrecting proposals for a 1930s-style Popular Front Against…
SAN FRANCISCO — While new, improved contracts have been won this fall by striking hotel workers across the country, here they are still on strike. Marriott, Hilton and Hyatt bosses are playing hardball, demanding an inferior medical plan for new…
SYDNEY — Some 400 nurses, members of the New South Wales Nurses and Midwives Association, marched on the Ramsay Health Care company’s annual meeting here Nov. 26 to press their demands for a 20% pay raise over three years and…
LOS ANGELES — “It’s been two years without a contract. We’ve met with the company twice but they won’t give us what we deserve,” Gary Duplesses, a cook at Flying Food Group, organized by UNITE HERE Local 11 here, told…
At a meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan, Nov. 28, Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to use hypersonic ballistic missiles against Ukraine’s urban areas, including Kyiv, a weapon he boasted could turn targets “into dust.” The Oreshnik missile, he said, could destroy…
A political upheaval is shaking Georgia. The largest demonstrations in the modern history of the country followed the Nov. 28 decision of the increasingly pro-Moscow and authoritarian Georgian Dream government led by Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze to shelve preparatory talks…
