For second week, hundreds of protesters back Haitians in Ohio

Vol. 90/No. 30 - August 24, 2026
Over 700 people turned out in Blue Ash, Ohio, Aug. 9, lining the street outside regional immigration office to support Haitian neighbors, co-workers, demand TPS protection be restored.

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…


Post Office unionists protest bosses’ moves to slash deliveries

Vol. 90/No. 29 - August 17, 2026

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…


Nurses win contract, safety gains at Hazelden Betty Ford clinic

Vol. 90/No. 29 - August 17, 2026

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…


Canada’s rulers use their state to attack unions’ right to strike

Vol. 90/No. 29 - August 17, 2026
Mathieu Klein, left, picket captain for striking Metro workers, tells Craig Honts, SWP con-gressional candidate in New Jersey, July 26 that Canada’s government is backing the bosses.

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 Teamsters vote down Cargill contract offer

Vol. 90/No. 29 - August 17, 2026
Locked-out Teamsters vote down Cargill contract offer

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…


US hands off Cuba!

End stifling sanctions, war threats
Vol. 90/No. 29 - August 17, 2026
Cuba solidarity contingent in Puerto Rican People’s Parade in Chicago, June 13. U.S. rulers are escalating attacks on Cuba’s sovereignty and socialist revolution, while targeting its supporters.

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…


Ghirardelli candy store workers strike over healthcare costs

Vol. 90/No. 29 - August 17, 2026

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!”…


Rail workers honor USW picket line at Marathon refinery

Vol. 90/No. 29 - August 17, 2026

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…


NY SWP candidates: ‘Working class needs to take political power’

Vol. 90/No. 29 - August 17, 2026
“Building the SWP is crucial to help construct the leadership the working class needs to move forward,” Paul Mailhot, SWP candidate for NY governor, said at Aug. 1 Militant Labor Forum.

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…


Meeting: 32 years since deadly Jewish Center bombing in Argentina

Vol. 90/No. 29 - August 17, 2026

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…