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…
PAWTUCKET, R.I. — The Cape Verdean Museum here is unique. Its displays of photos, posters, crafts and publications, almost all donated by community members, give a vivid feel for the experiences of many generations of immigrants from that West African…
“Inflation, high prices, no to war and destruction,” chanted dozens of retired workers in Shush in Iran’s Khuzestan province. “Livelihood and dignity are our undeniable rights.” Their action was just one of more than a dozen protests or strikes across…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Washington has carried out daily intense military strikes on hundreds of targets in Iran since July 11, after Tehran ignored President Donald Trump’s ultimatum for the regime to issue a public statement saying the Strait of Hormuz is open and…
AS WE GO TO PRESS … Six days after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, ICE forces chased and then killed 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero, originally from Colombia, as he left his home…
