From longshoremen in the U.S. to rail workers in Canada, hotel workers in Los Angeles to park workers in Minneapolis, flight attendants who’ve gone years without a new contract to independent truckers hit by rising costs, more and more working…
While preparing to defend Jews and all Israelis from new attacks threatened by Tehran and its “axis of resistance,” Israeli troops continue to deal blows to Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. The destruction of Tehran-backed Hamas’ command structures…
SYDNEY — A major union-busting attack on the national construction workers union is underway here, with Workplace Relations Minister Murray Watt announcing Aug. 9 he plans to rush through a threatened new law to impose government “administration” on the union.…
“We’re going out. Oct. 1 we’re going out, they’re not talking,” Anthony Bailey, a longshore worker, told Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, outside the International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1416 hall in Miami Aug. 11. Some…
MONTREAL — The Canadian Industrial Relations Board Aug. 9 finally lifted its three-month-long suspension of the right to a work stoppage by either the Teamsters union or the rail bosses, saying it posed “no immediate and serious danger” to public…
The political crisis over the disputed results of the July 28 Venezuelan presidential elections has deepened as Washington, with imperial arrogance, continues to violate the country’s sovereignty by intervening in the oil-rich country’s internal affairs. President Nicolás Maduro was officially…
It’s been over three months since prison authorities at Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone, Florida, barred a subscriber to the Militant there from getting issue no. 17. Upon learning of the impoundment in mid-May, Militant attorney David Goldstein appealed. After…
Thousands of Quebec hotel workers strike for higher wages BY KATY LEROUGETEL MONTREAL — “Since the pandemic the price of a hotel room has gone up 67%. We’re asking for 36% over four years!” Michel Valiquette, representative of the Federation…
LONDON — Fast on the heels of its election victory, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government has taken steps to hone its defense of the interests of the U.K.’s capitalist rulers at home and abroad. Within days, Foreign Secretary David…
MONTREAL — Chris Carbert and Anthony Olienick, participants in the trucker-organized 2022 Freedom Convoy against Ottawa’s job-threatening COVID vaccine mandates, were acquitted by a jury Aug. 2 of frame-up charges of “conspiring” to kill police. The courthouse in Lethbridge, Alberta,…
