Cosmetic surgeries and injections “have been getting cheaper, less invasive and vastly more common in recent years, in middle income countries as well as rich ones,” a Jan. 4 article in the Economist boasts. “Falling costs and technology have democratized”…
Francisco “Dodong” Nemenzo died in Manila, Philippines, Dec. 19, at the age of 89. “He was highly respected as a longtime president of the University of the Philippines. Throughout his life he was well-known as a socialist who stuck to…
MONTREAL — “You’re the first people to do this here!” construction worker Danny Lelièvre-Copez said when Communist League candidate Katy LeRougetel knocked on his door in a neighborhood in LaSalle here March 9. “We need to make Canada independent,” Lelièvre-Copez…
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Over 1,500 bus drivers, light-rail operators, mechanics and office workers, members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 265, went on strike against the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority here March 10. The system transports 100,000 people a…
March 20, 2000 PITTSBURGH — The first Steelworkers union International Women’s Conference here was marked by women who are part of the struggles of working people across North America. Total participation was nearly 800. “USWA Women in Action — Solidarity…
ROMEOVILLE, Ill. — “10 Roads is making a lot of money and not sharing it. They should call it ‘10 Cash Registers.’ That’s why we’re camped out here,” Bert Mitchell, a member of Teamsters Local 727, told the Militant on…
PALMETTO, Ga. — A determined group of six Teamsters, members of Local 728, have been staffing the picket line at the 10 Roads Express satellite yard here every day since Feb. 27 when they joined 500 others in eight states…
The Spanish edition of Capitalism’s World Disorder: Working-Class Politics at the Millennium by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for March. The book explains the coming apart of the…
NEWARK, N.J. — On the 10 Roads Express picket line here March 1, two truckers and their Teamsters Local 641 representative discussed their strike with Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey governor, who came to offer solidarity.…
ATHENS, Greece — Thirty-five workers, family and supporters picketed the main buildings at MM Publications in the Athens suburb of Alimos Feb. 20. MM Publications is one of the major publishing houses in the country, producing schoolbooks used here and…
