The liberal bourgeois media paints Israelis who live in West Bank settlements as overwhelmingly racists who illegally live on “occupied” land and seek to ethnically cleanse the territory of Palestinians. They don’t say a word about Hamas and Islamic Jihad…
WASHINGTON — “Today, I want to speak with you about an urgent crisis, a remarkable story and an opportunity we can no longer afford to ignore,” said Alejandro Pila, deputy ambassador at Cuba’s embassy here, welcoming some 50 participants to…
OAKLAND, Calif. — Some 40,000 custodians, cafeteria workers, patient care assistants, hospital technicians, gardeners and others at University of California hospitals and campuses, members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299, went on a two-day…
After a 101-day strike, some 3,200 members of International Association of Machinists District 837 are back on the job at Boeing’s military aircraft and munitions plants in the St. Louis area. Machinists there voted in favor of accepting the company’s…
CHICAGO — Teamsters Local 705 members ended their strike at the Mauser Packaging Solutions subsidiary plant in the Little Village neighborhood here Nov. 21. Bosses had announced they were shuttering the plant that day. The union’s 168 members walked off…
One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November is Labor’s Giant Step — The First Twenty Years of the CIO: 1936-55 by Art Preis. He fought in labor battles in the 1930s, then became a staff writer for the…
Washington’s escalating immigration raids and deportations are a serious threat to working people and the unions today. They seek to divide the working class into two camps: workers born in the U.S. and others born abroad. The goal of the…
December 4, 2000 MONTREAL — After tying up the port for 28 days and defying government back-to-work legislation for 17 of those days, truckers at the Port of Montreal voted Nov. 19 to accept an agreement with the provincial government…
In a victory for human rights, 81-year-old prize-winning Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal was released from imprisonment Nov. 12 and flown to a hospital in Germany where he is being treated for prostate cancer. Sansal’s release by Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune…
A victory won by the Socialist Workers Party in a political rights lawsuit against the Illinois State Board of Elections in 1979 became a central focus of the discussion at an Oct. 8 U.S. Supreme Court hearing. At issue was…
