PALMETTO, Ga. — A determined group of six Teamsters, members of Local 728, have been staffing the picket line at the 10 Roads Express satellite yard here every day since Feb. 27 when they joined 500 others in eight states…
ROMEOVILLE, Ill. — “10 Roads is making a lot of money and not sharing it. They should call it ‘10 Cash Registers.’ That’s why we’re camped out here,” Bert Mitchell, a member of Teamsters Local 727, told the Militant on…
March 20, 2000 PITTSBURGH — The first Steelworkers union International Women’s Conference here was marked by women who are part of the struggles of working people across North America. Total participation was nearly 800. “USWA Women in Action — Solidarity…
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Over 1,500 bus drivers, light-rail operators, mechanics and office workers, members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 265, went on strike against the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority here March 10. The system transports 100,000 people a…
MONTREAL — “You’re the first people to do this here!” construction worker Danny Lelièvre-Copez said when Communist League candidate Katy LeRougetel knocked on his door in a neighborhood in LaSalle here March 9. “We need to make Canada independent,” Lelièvre-Copez…
Francisco “Dodong” Nemenzo died in Manila, Philippines, Dec. 19, at the age of 89. “He was highly respected as a longtime president of the University of the Philippines. Throughout his life he was well-known as a socialist who stuck to…
Cosmetic surgeries and injections “have been getting cheaper, less invasive and vastly more common in recent years, in middle income countries as well as rich ones,” a Jan. 4 article in the Economist boasts. “Falling costs and technology have democratized”…
The protracted political crisis and murderous gang violence in Haiti continues to spiral, with devastating consequences for working people. At least 5,600 people were killed by gangs in 2024, and the number of those forced to flee their homes tripled…
ATHENS, Greece — Hundreds of thousands of working people and youth filled the streets of central Athens Feb. 28, above, in an outpouring of outrage on the second anniversary of a train collision in Tembe in northern Greece. Fifty-seven people…
The imperialist world order Washington has dominated since it emerged as the victor from World War II is being shaken by cutthroat competition between rival capitalist rulers for markets, raw materials and which of them will grab the biggest slice…
