In one of the largest actions by oil and gas workers in Iran in decades, 5,000 contract workers from 12 South Pars refineries and many family members marched in Asaluyeh Dec. 9, demanding higher wages, more humane work schedules, job…
The U.S. government is refusing to grant travel visas to more than 100 Cuban athletes to take part in qualifying events necessary to compete in the 2028 Summer Olympics and Paralympic Games in Los Angeles. A campaign, Let Cuba Play!…
The Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT) has called a nationwide general strike Jan. 21 against the government of Tunisian President Kais Saied to protest his crackdown and arrests of political opponents, restrictions on basic rights, and to demand wage raises…
Since taking office, President Donald Trump’s administration has launched a far-reaching effort to deport hundreds of thousands of workers without papers, posing a serious challenge to the labor movement. Trump slanders immigrant workers, saying millions are criminals or worse, and…
December 18, 2000 The assault on working people by the U.S. government over the past two decades has hit working-class women particularly hard. From the federal legislation that ended Aid to Families with Dependent Children in 1996, working women and…
RICHMOND, Calif. — Some 3,000 teachers and other school workers went on strike against the West Contra Costa Unified School District Dec. 4, demanding better wages and adequate staffing. This is their first strike since the district was founded in…
LONDON — More than 150 workers, members of the Public and Commercial Services Union, went on strike at the Tate galleries in Liverpool, London and St. Ives Nov. 26-Dec. 2, demanding higher pay. Strikers at the Tate Modern here carried…
SEATTLE — The Starbucks Workers United union continues to mount strike picket lines Monday to Friday at three stores in this area and in cities across the country. The strike began at 120 stores Nov. 13, hitting the company in…
Holiday greetings to our readers behind bars! The 1.8 million people incarcerated in the U.S. are overwhelmingly part of the working class. The defense of their rights and their ability to have unfettered access to the news and politics of…
Hamas leaders make it clear they have no intention of disarming, nor of giving up their brutal stranglehold on Gaza or abandoning their goal of destroying Israel and eliminating the Jews. As the weeks go by with no moves to…
