HAVANA — The First International Fidel Colloquium: Legacy and Future opened here Aug. 10. René González Barrios, director of the Fidel Castro Ruz Center, which is organizing the four-day event, told participants that the 1,500 people attending include over 1,000…
EAGAN, Minn. — As part of nationwide actions sponsored by the American Postal Workers Union, some 40 people picketed and rallied outside the Postal Service Distribution Center here July 28. This was a joint protest organized by the APWU locals…
CENTER CITY, Minn. — Members of the Minnesota Nurses Association secured their first contract at the Hazelden Betty Ford Rehab clinic here, after over a year of negotiations and a two-week strike that ended July 30. “Great news! We have…
MONTREAL — Members of the Communist League here and the Socialist Workers Party in the U.S. recently visited the picket lines of 550 striking Metro supermarket warehouse workers in Laval, just north of Montreal, and the 105 locked-out Siemens Electric…
Locked-out members of Teamsters Local 455 in Fort Morgan, Colorado, rejected the latest contract offer from Cargill bosses Aug. 3. The tentative contract had been reached July 28. Teamsters Local 455 Business Agent Chris Suazo told the press, “The membership…
Protest slanders, subpoenas on supporters of Cuba In 1959, led by Fidel Castro, Cuba’s workers and peasants made a thoroughgoing social revolution and have defended it arms-in-hand for 67 years. They have inspired workers and oppressed peoples worldwide to seek…
SAN FRANCISCO — Forty-five members of UNITE HERE Local 2 at the Ghirardelli Chocolate store here, a popular tourist attraction, began a three-day strike July 30 against the bosses’ proposal to increase their healthcare costs. “Who’s gonna win? Local 2!”…
MARTINEZ, Calif. — Locked-out refinery workers at the Marathon refinery here got a boost this week when Union Pacific rail crews stopped delivering tallow, a main ingredient of the biofuel the company produces, into the facility. The members of United…
NEW YORK — “The U.S. rulers and their counterparts across the globe in their sharpening competition for markets, resources and cheap labor, answer by implementing measures to increase the exploitation of working people worldwide,” Paul Mailhot, Socialist Workers Party candidate…
MIAMI — July 18 marked the 32nd anniversary of the 1994 Tehran-backed Hezbollah bombing of the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that killed 85 people and wounded over 300. It was commemorated in Buenos Aires July 17 and…
