COVENTRY, England — Some 200 warehouse workers and their supporters marched and rallied outside the Amazon plant here Feb. 13. They were part of over 1,000 members of the General Municipal and Boilermakers union who struck for better wages and…
ATLANTA — Two rail workers were killed on the job in the past month in Alabama and North Carolina. In a Feb. 15 statement, the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division-International Brotherhood of Teamsters union said Brother Randall M.…
DURHAM, N.C. — In early February, Durham public school workers and support staff shut down as many as 12 schools in a fight with the Board of Education over pay. They set up picket lines, held rallies and brought their…
March 8, 1999 CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Some 150 people marched here Feb. 9 to protest the Security Intelligence Service amendment bill now before Parliament. The SIS is the government’s domestic spy organization. The purpose is to give SIS agents…
UNION CITY, N.J. — The Socialist Workers Party announced Feb. 17 that Rachele Fruit of Miami will be the SWP candidate for U.S. president and Margaret Trowe of Oakland, California, will be Fruit’s running mate for vice president. The announcement…
The Russian government informed Alexei Navalny’s family Feb. 16 that he had died in prison. Navalny, a well-known critic of the government in Moscow, had been incarcerated in one of Russia’s harsh prison colonies in the Arctic Circle. The announcement…
The Israeli government gave Hamas leaders a deadline of Ramadan in early March to release all the roughly 100 hostages it still holds captive. Otherwise, it said, the Israel Defense Forces will launch a major offensive on Rafah, on the…
Thousands of Uber, Lyft and DoorDash drivers went on a one-day strike on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, in more than a dozen U.S. cities, and at some airports, including Chicago, Miami, San Francisco and Newark, New Jersey. Workers turned off…
HAVANA — The 32nd Havana International Book Fair is a “demonstration of the value our government places on books and reading, given the difficult world situation and intensification of the criminal U.S. blockade,” Juan Rodríguez, president of the Cuban Book…
The Democratic Socialists of America, Communist Party and other Stalinist currents in the U.S. are telling workers Donald Trump is so dangerous they have to back Joseph Biden, the candidate of the Democratic Party, one of the capitalist rulers’ two…
