SYDNEY — Chanting “Hands off our union!” tens of thousands of construction workers marched off the job and rallied in major cities across Australia Aug. 27. The action was a resounding protest against the federal Labor Party government, which days…
Strikes by 10,000 hotel workers and 17,000 AT&T workers are being fought over issues of vital interest to all working people. Members of UNITE HERE are fighting for needed hiring as hotel bosses’ press them to get more work done…
This statement was released by Laura Anderson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from Florida, Sept. 3. The U.S. government’s frame-up trial against Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party, and Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel, leaders…
CHESHIRE, England — “The guys are absolutely 100% determined we’re going to win,” Gary Fairclough, Unite regional officer, told the Militant at their lively picket line outside Abriso Jiffy packaging plant here. “We can’t be having any withdrawal of sick…
In yet another escalation in Washington’s aggression against Venezuela’s sovereignty, U.S. officials seized a private jet used by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro for state business and flew it from the Dominican Republic to Florida Sept. 2. The seizure takes place…
LONDON — Around 100 day-surgery nurses at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospitals have been in a fight with bosses since June over unsustainable increases to their work shifts. Management first increased hospital hours from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. to 7 a.m.-8…
Thousands of nurses in Iran have joined strikes that began Aug. 2 and spread to over 60 hospitals and health centers in 40 cities across the country. Hundreds of EMTs have joined the strike. Along with some supporters, they lined…
As college campuses across the U.S. reopen for the new semester, pro-Hamas forces are returning to attacks against Jews there and their campaign against Israel. Several dozen protesters picketed outside Columbia University Sept. 3 on the first day of class.…
September 20, 1999 CHICAGO — Eleven Puerto Rican political prisoners, most of whom have spent two decades in U.S. prisons because of their pro-independence actions, are due to be released soon. This victory is the result of an international campaign…
COMMERCE, Calif. — “The rents went up, the groceries went up and they don’t see that. They say that with the money they give us we can survive, but we can’t,” said Arturo Morales on the strike picket line at…
