PHILADELPHIA — “We won! We won!” chanted UNITE HERE Local 274 members who work at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown hotel, after Local President Rosslyn Wuchinich announced a tentative deal for some 200 workers at their strike headquarters June 29. They…
Hundreds demonstrated in defense of continuing Temporary Protected Status for refugees from Haiti in Springfield, Ohio, and other cities following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling June 25. The decision says President Donald Trump’s administration has the right, as the executive…
After another round of drone and airstrikes and counterstrikes, the U.S. and Iranian governments sent representatives to Qatar to seek negotiations June 30. Having dealt big blows to Tehran’s military in repeated missile and drone attacks beginning in February, the…
NEW YORK — Some 60 people protested outside the main federal post office in midtown Manhattan here June 27 to demand the U.S. government end its brutal economic blockade of Cuba. This was the third picket this year organized by…
Actions in Miami, across US, back Cuba’s nat’l sovereignty MIAMI — The U.S. rulers’ escalating economic and political war against Cuba and its national sovereignty are worsening the humanitarian crisis facing the Cuban people. Groups from the National Network on…
On May 17, National Farmers’ Day in Cuba, working people across the island marked the anniversary of the First Agrarian Reform. It was carried through 67 years ago by the workers and farmers government that had taken power five months…
Statement by Paul Mailhot, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New York, to the U.N. Special Committee on Decolonization annual hearing on the status of Puerto Rico June 22. Mailhot was one of nearly 60 people who spoke, the…
THREE RIVERS, Mich. — Nearly 1,000 striking members of United Auto Workers Local 2093 returned to work June 15 after winning substantial gains. They had walked off the job at the large American Axle plant here, now called Dauch, two…
In a significant victory for the constitutional right of workers behind bars to read material of their choosing and of the Militant to reach its inmate subscribers, Florida prison authorities after months of dispute overturned bans on three issues of…
“The Great American Job-Creation Machine Comes Back to Life,” headlined an enthusiastic June 6 Wall Street Journal article, hailing the Labor Department’s claim 172,000 jobs were “created” in May. But a closer look at the facts shows this claim is…
