Maricopa Superior Court Judge Greg Como struck down three state laws that restricted access to abortion in Arizona Feb. 6. The laws required women to provide a reason for seeking an abortion, barred abortion in cases of nonfatal genetic abnormalities,…
MONTREAL — Thousands joined rallies and demonstrations in eight cities across Quebec Feb. 7 protesting the provincial government’s abolition of its Quebec Experience Program (PEQ). Under the program thousands of workers from abroad were brought to work in Quebec, providing…
LOS ANGELES — Some 31,000 Kaiser Hospital nurses and other health care workers in California and Hawaii, organized by the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, have been on strike since Jan. 26. Over 3,000 pharmacy technicians,…
February 19, 2001 For decades the British government has sought to cover up its responsibility for the 1972 killing of the civil rights marchers in Derry who were shot down in cold blood by British troops. London hoped this murderous…
The Spanish Railroad Engineers and Trainmen’s Union (SEMAF) ended a three-day nationwide strike early on Feb. 11 after reaching an agreement with the government over safety as well as other measures. The strike followed a series of train crashes. They…
Some 100,000 transportation workers walked off the job in Germany Feb. 2, bringing subway trains, buses and trams across the country to a halt in one of the largest labor actions they’ve carried out there in years. The 24-hour strike…
The article below by Paul Burnell was published on the BBC North West online edition Feb. 4, reporting the Communist League is running Hugo Wils in the by-election in the Gorton and Denton constituency in Manchester, England. A trade unionist…
Four years into its invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime has intensified its bombardment of energy generation facilities to deny heat, water and electricity to punish and attempt to demoralize Ukraine’s civilian population. But this has just fortified…
Washington’s punishing oil blockade against Cuba, as well as military threats against the Cuban people by President Donald Trump’s administration, are a sharp escalation of the bipartisan course followed by the U.S. capitalist rulers for over 60 years. It’s not…
Washington has carried out a massive military buildup in the Mideast in recent weeks, including sending the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, destroyers, fighter jets and thousands of troops, on top of the 40,000 already stationed in eight bases across…
