HAIFA, Israel — The second international Contemporary Antisemitism conference took place here July 7-9, hosted by the Elizabeth and Tony Comper Center for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism at the University of Haifa. It was cosponsored by the Center…
Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, one of the original Moncada combatants and a veteran central leader of the Cuban Revolution, died June 21 in Havana. In 1953, Valdés was a 21-year-old helper to truck drivers hauling sugar cane when he heard young…
LONDON — A couple of hundred people, including many families, joined a July 11 festival here to celebrate Cape Verde’s 51st anniversary since winning independence from Portuguese colonial rule. It was a lively event, with music, singers, dancing, speakers, and…
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…
MONTREAL — Eight months after a police officer shot and killed 15-year-old Nooran Rezayi in Longueuil on Sept. 21, 2025, setting off protests, police here announced not that charges were being lodged against an officer, but that criminal charges were…
LOS ANGELES — The putrid odor hangs in the air with no relief, Idefonso Flores Aguilar, told the Militant 11 days after a fire broke out at the massive Lineage food storage warehouse in the Boyle Heights area here. “I…
BOSTON — “Today we walked back into the Brigham together with our heads held high because we never stopped fighting for our patients,” Kelly Morgan, the Massachusetts Nursing Association Brigham Nurse Chair, told the press July 13. Their return followed…
With picket signs that read “Greed kills/nurses heal” and “Safe staffing saves lives,” nurses at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore held a 24-hour strike against systematic understaffing July 6. The same day nearly 1,200 nurses struck two Ascension hospitals…
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…
