MONTREAL — Chris Barber and Tamara Lich, who were spokespeople for the February 2022 protest in Ottawa by hundreds of truckers and others, were sentenced to 18 and 12 months respectively Oct. 7. Dozens of supporters attended the hearing. Both…
MANCHESTER, England — On Oct. 8, their third day of strike action, rail workers here were joined by Danny Taylor, a leader of the six-month-long Unite union refuse workers strike in Birmingham, a delegation from the Fire Brigade Union and…
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — “These books are necessary for a new awakening,” Frankely Polanco, a building painter, said while he was looking over the Pathfinder Press stand at the 27th Santo Domingo International Book Fair Oct. 1. He was…
WASHINGTON — Some 100 members of the National Black Lung Association — coal miners, wives, widows and other family members and friends — rallied here Oct. 14, along with members of the United Mine Workers of America. They’re demanding the…
MINNEAPOLIS — “The Socialist Workers Party calls on all working people and our unions to protest the Jew-hating attack on Temple Israel in Minneapolis,” Kevin Dwire, the SWP candidate for mayor, and Edwin Fruit, the party’s candidate for Minneapolis City…
Tens of thousands of protesters filled the streets of Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital, Oct. 4 after the Georgian Dream government claimed victory in municipal elections held after months of attacks on almost daily demonstrations, raids on independent media and the jailing…
Defying police censorship and the threat of repression, hundreds of young Russians gathered in St. Petersburg’s Kazanskaya Square Oct. 14 to sing an outlawed song calling for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be overthrown. They joined street musicians on Nevsky…
Teamster Bureaucracy by Farrell Dobbs is one of the Books of the Month for October. This is the last of his four volumes on the Teamsters. It covers the union’s campaign to lead working-class resistance to the bosses’ attacks and…
October 23, 2000 A general political strike and revolt toppled the regime of Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic Oct. 5. Factory workers, farmers, and other working people were at the center of the revolt. During the previous 10 days, militant strikes…
