New protest actions are now taking place almost every day in Iran, confronting attempts by the reactionary regime there to make working people pay for the deepening capitalist crisis and its foreign wars. Retirees, nurses, taxi drivers and textile workers…
CHICAGO — Roxanne Brown, international president of the United Steelworkers union, speaking above, led several hundred locked-out workers from the BP oil refinery and their supporters in a spirited picket and rally outside the company’s headquarters in downtown Chicago June…
NEW YORK — A video of Willie Cotton, Socialist Workers Party candidate for lieutenant governor of New York, speaking at a June 24 protest against Jew-hatred outside the Poetica Coffee shop in Brooklyn has been viewed more than 32,000 times.…
CROCKETT, Calif. — Ninety-one warehouse workers, members of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 6, went on strike June 15 at C&H Sugar here. They voted unanimously to turn down the bosses’ insulting takeback contract and to authorize a strike.…
SEATTLE — Over 100 Embassy Suites Pioneer Square hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 8, went on strike here June 18. The next day a spirited rally marked Juneteenth — a holiday that began when Union soldiers entered Texas…
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Some 100 nurses and their supporters rallied outside Nationwide Children’s Hospital here June 24 to build support for their fight to win union representation. They began working with AFSCME-United Nurses of America last September. “I’ve been a…
July 16, 2001 Eight young people are among the first students from the United States to receive scholarships to attend the Latin American School of Medical Sciences in Havana. The more than 3,400 international students at the school come from…
The overall number of deaths from two devastating earthquakes 100 miles west of Caracas, Venezuela, are not known, with close to 2,000 found dead and thousands more still missing. What is certain is the scale of the deaths and destruction…
UNITED NATIONS — Tens of thousands across Puerto Rico have been without running water for weeks on end, on top of years of frequent electrical blackouts, Damara González told the United Nations decolonization hearing on the status of Puerto Rico…
One of the most important developments for working people in the U.S. over the last 75 years was the rise of the Black-led working-class mass movement that exploded across the South in the 1950s and ’60s and succeeded in overthrowing…
