BLUE ASH, Ohio — “Let them stay!” chanted hundreds of supporters of the right of Haitians who had been living and working in the U.S. for years under the government’s Temporary Protected Status program to remain in the U.S. They…
In the last two days of July, some 72,000 mostly young people living in Morocco crossed the land border into the adjacent Spanish enclave of Ceuta, with 75 immigrants dying. Many attempted a 3-mile swim around the border breakwater to…
Socialist Workers Party candidates around the country are the only voice in the 2026 elections presenting a working-class road to end the capitalist rulers’ devastating wars abroad and their relentless profit drive that targets workers’ wages and conditions of life…
August 27, 2001 In the biggest military attack against Iraq in six months, 50 U.S. and British warplanes unleashed a bombing assault in southern Iraq on Aug. 10. Three days earlier the Pentagon had dropped bombs in the northern part…
MONTREAL — On Aug. 2 more than 4,000 flight attendants at WestJet, Canada’s second largest airline, went on strike, setting up picket lines at airports from coast to coast. After little more than 24 hours, their union, Canadian Union of…
MONTREAL — The 300 members of United Steelworkers Local 6951 went on strike at the West ArcelorMittal plant in Contrecoeur Aug. 1, the day after their old contract expired. Contrecoeur is an hour’s drive northeast of Montreal. When Militant worker-correspondents…
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…
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!”…
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…
