CROCKETT, Calif. — “The longshoremen’s union has a long history fighting for the rights of sugar workers in Hawaii,” Chris West, president of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 142 from Honolulu, told a solidarity rally of over 200 people…
The July 7-8 summit of imperialist and other governments in the NATO military alliance exposed deepening rifts between the U.S. rulers and their main rivals in Europe, despite President Donald Trump claiming there was “a lot of unity.” The gathering…
By the mid-1950s growing numbers of African Americans were stepping forward to fight to overturn the widespread denial of voting rights and the racial segregation of public services, like city bus lines and schools across the South. Significant changes coming…
PHILADELPHIA — Three days after winning a contract through a nine-day strike at the Sheraton Downtown, UNITE HERE Local 274 workers from that hotel were on the picket line at the Hilton Garden Inn July 2 supporting their union brothers…
In the face of government indifference to the deadly impact of the spread of the Ebola virus in the northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, doctors, nurses and other medical personnel went on strike July 7 over the fact they’ve never…
CHICAGO — Just under 15,000 people attended the American Library Association’s 150th Conference in Chicago June 25-29, with 641 exhibitors coming from 61 different countries. The Pathfinder booth drew people interested in books on crucial questions facing workers today. Pathfinder…
MONTREAL — After almost three months on strike, 550 workers at Metro supermarket’s fruit and vegetable warehouse in Laval, its drivers at the warehouse in Rivieres-des-Prairies, and its office workers at its headquarters in Montreal rejected the company’s latest proposal…
CHICAGO — “We want a union, we want respect,” Ernesto Patino told the Militant on the strike picket line outside Open Kitchens here July 6. “And we need a raise. We have to take care of our families and pay…
EMERYVILLE, Calif. — Workers fighting for a contract at the Hilton Garden Inn here organized a spirited picket and rally July 9, joined by supporters from other union hotels in the area. “We the workers at the Hilton Garden Inn…
RE’IM, Israel — On July 11, a group of us were taken by our hosts, Vered and Itzik Benayoun, to visit the site of the Nova Festival, now a memorial to the nearly 400 mainly young participants in the all-night…
