HOUSTON — “We are calling for a full, transparent, independent investigation into all of this,” Ronaldo Salgado, the son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, told a rally of hundreds of people here July 19. They were protesting the killing of his…
CROCKETT, Calif. — Vendors, churches and food trucks lined the street leading down to the C&H refinery for the annual Sugartown Festival here July 19, but the company didn’t show up — no booth, no skid of free sugar. Instead,…
Seventy-three years ago Fidel Castro led an armed attack aimed at seizing the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Barracks of the U.S.-backed Fulgencio Batista dictatorship in Cuba. Although the July 26, 1953, assault failed, it set in motion a…
In Puerto Rico thousands marched over 5 miles from Old San Juan to the U.S. Federal Courthouse July 18 united in calling for Puerto Rican independence from U.S. colonial rule. Solidarity marches took place in Orlando, Florida; Minneapolis; and Worcester,…
FORT MORGAN, Colo. — Despite temperatures near 100 degrees, Teamsters Local 455 members continue to picket for a decent wage increase and in protest of Cargill’s lockout at its beef slaughterhouse here. The lockout of 1,700 workers began May 20…
Amid daily U.S. airstrikes against hundreds of targets in Iran, answered by drone and missile attacks by Tehran against U.S. bases in the region, Washington and the Iranian regime are once again talking about a possible ceasefire, one to last…
Growing assaults on immigrants by government immigration cops sharply pose the need for the unions to lead a fight for amnesty for all workers in the U.S. without papers. This is the road to end their pariah status, unify the…
This Cuban documentary produced in 2006 tells the story of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine and Cuba’s exemplary internationalist medical program that treated more than 25,000 victims.
