April 17, 2000 NEW YORK — The first of a series of public forums organized by the AFL-CIO on immigrant rights took place here April 1. A feature of the event was reports by immigrant workers involved in battles for…
Israel’s new offensive in Gaza is aimed at decisively defeating Hamas to prevent it from organizing more murderous pogroms against Jews. Combined with the ongoing protests against Hamas by Palestinians in Gaza, this marks a turning point in the fight…
QUEBEC CITY — Eight thousand striking day care workers from all corners of Quebec marched on the provincial legislature here April 3. Some 13,000 education workers and support staff overall, members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN), from…
UNION CITY, N.J. — In the opening four days of the fight to get the Socialist Workers Party on the ballot in New Jersey, 650 signatures were gathered, as well as 23 subscriptions to the Militant and 24 books by…
WASHINGTON — A meeting organized by the branch of the Socialist Workers Party here was held March 22 to celebrate the life of Omari Musa, a veteran cadre of some 57 years building the communist movement in the U.S. and…
SAN FRANCISCO — In their second week on strike, drivers for Flying Food Group, a catering company at the San Francisco International Airport, rallied at the airport April 7. “We’re united, we’re solid,” Norber Naguit, a driver with nine years…
SEATTLE — Early in the morning April 2, some 50 masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agents entered the Mt. Baker Roofing Company warehouse in Bellingham, Washington, a city 25 miles south of the U.S.-Canadian border. They arrested…
LONDON — “We will win!” some 200 supporters of an Israeli victory in its war against Hamas chanted at a spirited rally here April 2. The chant was led by the speaker, Yoseph Haddad, an Israeli Arab, who joined the…
PARIS — During the fourth annual African Book Fair here March 14-16, one Burkinabe participant posted a short TikTok video about the French language edition of Thomas Sankara Speaks, a book that contains all of Sankara’s speeches while he was…
Thousands of working people in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, took to the streets April 2 protesting against the Haitian government’s refusal to protect them from the violence of brutal armed gangs, which have taken control over 85% of the capital city. They…
