February 14, 2000 Dairy farmers in the Northeast held coordinated actions Feb. 1 to protest the low prices they are receiving for milk. Prices have fallen 39 percent since September. Such low prices have not been seen since 1978. “Milk…
Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing a harsher crackdown targeting wider layers of organizations and individuals that oppose his regime’s war against the people of Ukraine. A special target is 172 ethnic and indigenous rights groups and media outlets branded…
Israel continues to face deadly threats from the reactionary bourgeois regime in Tehran — Hamas’ main backer — as it advances efforts to produce nuclear weapons. Iran Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei calls Israel a “cancerous growth” that must be “uprooted…
“Porcelain War,” a film by directors Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev. Showing in theaters now. In Ukrainian, with English and Russian subtitles. MINNEAPOLIS — I saw “Porcelain War,” a recent documentary film made in Ukraine, early in January. As a…
Pombo: A Man of Che’s Guerrilla: With Che Guevara in Bolivia, 1966-68 by Harry Villegas is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for February. Villegas, known the world over as “Pombo,” the nom de guerre given him by revolutionary…
President Donald Trump threatened to levy sizable tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico, seeking to achieve a political goal — to force their governments to send troops to more tightly secure their borders with the U.S., to cut down…
The 700 members of Culinary Workers Local 226 and of Bartenders Local 165, both UNITE HERE affiliates, voted unanimously to end a 69-day strike Jan. 22 after bosses at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas met most of their demands. The bosses,…
MONTREAL — On Jan. 28 rail bosses at Canadian National Railway and union officials of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which represents the signal and communications workers, announced that a tentative four-year agreement had been reached, the same day…
Members of Unifor Local 101R at Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railway have voted by 99% to authorize strike action. On Jan. 27, two days before the workers were set to walk out, CPKC announced a tentative four-year contract had been…
MONTREAL — In the first of a possible five days of strikes, almost 13,000 workers from 400 government child care facilities rallied and marched in cities and towns across Quebec Jan. 23. They are demanding the government negotiate a union…
