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…
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…
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…
Washington’s war on Iran, along with deepening assaults on living standards and repression at the hands of the reactionary capitalist regime in Tehran are deepening the crisis working people face there. U.S. airstrikes not only target Tehran’s military facilities, they…
MIAMI — As the deadline approached for the end of Temporary Protected Status, Haitian workers, along with their supporters and a number of unions, rallied here to call for an extension. TPS allows workers from countries designated by the federal…
DURHAM, England — Tens of thousands of trade unionists and others in the north of England joined a march and labor movement rally here July 11 hosted by the Durham Miners’ Association. The annual mobilization is used to celebrate past…
MONTREAL — Another rail disaster was narrowly avoided when 45 railcars on a 172-car train derailed July 5 in the heart of a residential neighborhood in Repentigny, a large suburban town just northeast of Montreal. Eric Renaud, who lives down…
August 6, 2001 HAVANA — Some 180 young people from two dozen cities around the U.S. have begun a nine-day visit to Cuba to learn about the Cuban Revolution and to exchange political experiences and ideas with youth and others…
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…
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…
