September 10, 2001 The following message by Puerto Rican independence fighter Rafael Cancel Miranda was sent to the participants in the World Festival of Youth and Students held in Algeria. Cancel Miranda spent over a quarter-century in U.S. prisons. Since…
SEATTLE — Over 100 unionists joined the striking UNITE HERE Local 8 workers on their picket line in front of the Embassy Suites Hotel Aug. 20. “We are fighting for ourselves, but also because if we win this strike it…
HAYWARD, Calif. — Over 350 Teamster ready-mix concrete drivers at CalPortland in northern California ended a two-week strike Aug. 20, overwhelmingly ratifying a one-year contract. “I feel really good about it,” driver Rudy Gomez told the Militant. “They were trying…
BY KATY LEROUGETEL, MARTÍN KOPPEL AND CLAUDIA KAISER-LENOIR HAVANA — A team of Militant correspondents from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom was here in early August to report on the brutal impact of Washington’s relentless aggression against…
CENTER CITY, Minn. — After a hard-fought, monthslong strike, some 170 Government Services Professionals and Human Services workers, members of Teamsters Local 320, ratified a new three-year contract with Chisago County Commissioners here Aug. 28. “The agreement addresses two main…
LONDON — “No air con — no buses,” read signs held by striking bus drivers outside the Arriva North London garage in the Tottenham district here Aug. 14. Some 1,500 workers at eight garages walked out over intolerable work conditions…
TROIS-RIVIERES, Quebec — Over 100 Steelworkers and others gathered in front of the Siemens Energy electrical transformer plant here Aug. 28 for a barbecue picnic to support the 105 United Steelworkers Local 8396 members locked out April 15. “The fight…
Like battles against Jim Crow segregation across the South and elsewhere, the 1963-64 struggle in Cambridge, Maryland, was marked by the courage of its participants standing up to cops, racist mobs and the National Guard. It was also marked by…
Over 1,700 members of Teamsters Local 455 who work at the Cargill meat processing plant in Fort Morgan, Colorado, voted by a large majority Aug. 17 to approve a new five-year contract and to return to work. They were locked…
CONROE, Texas — In the month since construction worker Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot dead by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents while driving to work with three co-workers July 7, several events have been held here protesting his death. A…
