BALTIMORE — The extent of the social disaster for working people here caused by the March 26 collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge — a result of the bosses’ dog-eat-dog drive for profits at all costs — is becoming…
WASHINGTON — “We seek to preserve the economic and social transformation of Cuba today. To protect the rights of the Cuban people in a world more difficult and more dangerous than 1959,” Alejandro García del Toro, deputy chief of Mission…
WASHINGTON — Over 700 Washington Post reporters, editors, copy editors, clerical workers and employees in the paper’s commercial and advertising departments staged a one-day strike Dec. 7. It was the largest labor protest at the company since a bitter strike…
WASHINGTON — Some 200,000 protesters from across the country came out on the National Mall here Nov. 14 to rally against the Tehran-organized-and-backed Hamas slaughter of over 1,200 people in Israel Oct. 7, overwhelmingly Jewish. The banner at the front…
WASHINGTON — Over 75 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for a vigil Oct. 28 commemorating the death of Zhina Amini, the young Kurdish woman who died one year ago Sept. 16 after her arrest by the hated “morality police”…
WASHINGTON — Two Molotov cocktails were thrown at the Cuban Embassy here Sept. 24, hitting the front wall. There were no injuries to embassy personnel. The terrorist attack came on the heels of Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel’s trip to New…
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of owner-operators and fleet drivers joined together May 17 to protest the disastrous impact of freight brokers slashing rates. The caravan of bobtails — trucks without their trailers — cars and pickup trucks convoyed from Greenwood, Indiana,…
WASHINGTON — Some 30 people, many originally from Africa, came together here Oct. 17 to discuss the political legacy of Thomas Sankara, the central leader of the 1983-87 revolution in Burkina Faso and the country’s president. This is the 35th…
FORESTVILLE, Md. — After nine days on the picket line, striking Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 MetroAccess workers voted 91% to approve a new three-year agreement with Transdev Aug. 11. Transdev is one of four contractors that Washington Metropolitan Area…
WASHINGTON — Over 100 participants gathered at St. Stephen Church here March 26 for “An Evening in Solidarity with Cuba,” sponsored by the D.C. Metro Coalition in Solidarity with the Cuban Revolution. Kamau Benjamin, one of the leaders of the…
