CINCINNATI — Ayman Soliman, who had served as a Muslim chaplain at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, walked out of Butler County Jail here on Sept. 19. After 72 days in immigration detention, the federal government dropped all charges against…
HOUSTON — Some 400 members of UNITE HERE Local 23 have been on strike at the city-owned Hilton Americas hotel here since Labor Day. They’ve now extended their strike, originally set for 10 days, through Oct. 12. One of their…
LONDON — Dozens of Druze and their supporters held a protest here Aug. 30 to call attention to the situation they face in southern Syria, with murderous attacks against them, including by government forces. In English and Arabic, protesters called…
SYDNEY — Over 2,000 members of the Jewish community rallied at Sydney’s Bondi Beach Sept. 7 to counter a provocative anti-Israel protest. “When the antisemites come here, to the area that has the largest Jewish population in New South Wales,…
LONDON — A hundred people joined a Sept. 17 protest here called by the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers union and backed by other unions against changes made by the Labour government to visa-eligibility requirements. This poses the threat of…
MONTREAL — In a new and far-reaching attack on democratic freedoms, the Liberal federal government of Mark Carney has introduced in Parliament a so-called Combatting Hate Act. The proposed law makes a crime of any conduct “with the intent to…
NEW YORK — “The world we are living in today is marked by increasingly cutthroat trade conflicts, social explosions and wars among rival capitalist ruling classes,” John Studer told participants at a Sept. 20 Militant Labor Forum here, called to…
The longer-term battle for amnesty for all undocumented workers in the U.S. is deeply tied to today’s fight to defend and extend constitutional protections and to advance the unity and fighting capacity of the working class. This has become more…
The Sept. 10 assassination of conservative politician Charlie Kirk at a rally at Utah Valley University reflects the growing normalization of the use of violence to cancel political opponents by “woke” radical petty-bourgeois forces. It’s a serious and increasing danger…
Members of the Socialist Workers Party kicked off the party’s fall propaganda campaign and fund drive Sept. 20. They’re presenting the SWP’s response to events in world politics to fellow workers and inviting them to join with the party in…
