MONTREAL — After voting 96% to go on strike 11 days earlier, the 32 port agents at the Montreal Gateway Terminals here, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 4317, walked out Sept. 22. This terminal specializes in…
ATLANTA — More than 400 Teamsters Local 25 members at waste-hauler Republic Services in the Boston area ended their hard-fought strike Sept. 19, ratifying a new contract by 92%. The union said the workers won a 46% wage increase over…
At the center of the debates swirling around the annual United Nations General Assembly are competing attempts by all the imperialist powers and other ruling classes to end or obstruct Israel’s defensive war against Hamas. Each power hopes to get…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
