EDMONTON, Alberta — On Oct. 28 the United Conservative Party provincial government here voted to order 51,000 Alberta teachers, members of the Alberta Teachers’ Association on strike since Oct. 6, back to work. It ordered classes to resume the next…
With dozens of warships and planes, and thousands of U.S. troops deployed to Puerto Rico, in the Caribbean and the Pacific coast, the Trump administration is beating the war drums threatening military action to topple the Nicolás Maduro government in…
Hamas’ repeated attacks on Israeli soldiers, its delays in returning the bodies of hostages, its refusal to disarm and its brutal murders and repression against Palestinians in Gaza are no surprise. The “ceasefire” brokered by the U.S. government has changed…
Working people face a world of increasing social crisis and boss assaults on our living and working conditions and government attacks on constitutional rights. The capitalist system, with its intensified economic conflicts and military rivalries, is marching toward another world…
Mamdani aims to suck workers back into the Democratic Party NEW YORK — Amid growing national and international attention focused on the 2025 New York City elections, there’s only one candidate for mayor offering a working-class road forward, that’s Paul…
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly Oct. 29 adopted a resolution by an overwhelming margin calling on Washington to end its more than six-decade-long economic war against Cuba. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez reported that “over the past weeks…
SAN FRANCISCO — Airline cabin cleaners picketed at the San Francisco International Airport Oct. 22 against the suspension of 14 workers by Unifi, the contractor that hires cleaners for United Airlines planes. The suspended workers, members of SEIU United Service…
BIRMINGHAM, England — Seven months into their strike at the council-run refuse depots here, hundreds of refuse workers, members of Unite the Union, are winning the support of temporary workers hired by agencies to fill their jobs. “A growing number…
November 6, 2000 A major disaster has been unleashed in Eastern Kentucky as a result of the reckless profit drive of the coal mining barons. A 72-acre mine sludge pond broke Oct. 11 sending 250 million gallons of water and…
