The number of immigrants living in the European Union hit a total of more than 64 million in 2025, a record high, as millions of working people seek a better life in the face of the wars and social disasters…
MONTREAL — Striking workers at the giant Metro supermarket chain here continue to win support for their fight for a better contract. The Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN), their union, has condemned Metro bosses for using contract drivers as…
May 7, 2001 The grotesque spectacle being prepared by the Bush administration for the execution of Timothy McVeigh, the man convicted of the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, is part of the rulers’ effort to divide the…
WASHINGTON — Several hundred defenders of the rights of immigrants, trade unionists and others rallied outside the U.S. Supreme Court here April 29, protesting moves by the federal government to terminate Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from Haiti and Syria.…
MONTREAL — Some 130 workers at the Lavo plant here, members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) voted by 97% March 26 to go out on strike the next day. The plant makes well-known cleaning products such as…
ROSEVILLE, Minn. — Some 300 nursing home workers here, members of SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and Iowa, went on a three-day strike April 20-22 at five Monarch Healthcare Management facilities in the Twin Cities area. The action included a rally April…
CHICAGO — Hundreds of Chicago Public Schools lunchroom workers and their supporters rallied downtown here April 23 protesting the lack of progress toward a new contract after 11 months of negotiations. Along with lunchroom workers, organized by UNITE HERE Local…
With $111,741 collected toward the annual Militant Fighting Fund, supporters of the fund are stepping up efforts to take the $165,000 goal over the top in the remaining two weeks of the campaign. The Militant accepts no paid advertising and…
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — A Pathfinder Press booth was set up here at the Bogotá International Book Fair, one of the largest in Latin America, being held April 21-May 4. Last year’s book fair drew some 570,000 visitors. Popular titles in…
Catholic nuns at the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, New York, run Rosary Hill Home, a 42-bed hospice care facility for the poor there. On April 6 they filed a lawsuit because New York state officials are violating their constitutional rights. …
