LONDON — A couple of hundred people, including many families, joined a July 11 festival here to celebrate Cape Verde’s 51st anniversary since winning independence from Portuguese colonial rule. It was a lively event, with music, singers, dancing, speakers, and…
Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, one of the original Moncada combatants and a veteran central leader of the Cuban Revolution, died June 21 in Havana. In 1953, Valdés was a 21-year-old helper to truck drivers hauling sugar cane when he heard young…
HAIFA, Israel — The second international Contemporary Antisemitism conference took place here July 7-9, hosted by the Elizabeth and Tony Comper Center for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism at the University of Haifa. It was cosponsored by the Center…
With picket signs that read “Greed kills/nurses heal” and “Safe staffing saves lives,” nurses at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore held a 24-hour strike against systematic understaffing July 6. The same day nearly 1,200 nurses struck two Ascension hospitals…
PHILADELPHIA — Three days after winning a contract through a nine-day strike at the Sheraton Downtown, UNITE HERE Local 274 workers from that hotel were on the picket line at the Hilton Garden Inn July 2 supporting their union brothers…
PAWTUCKET, R.I. — The Cape Verdean Museum here is unique. Its displays of photos, posters, crafts and publications, almost all donated by community members, give a vivid feel for the experiences of many generations of immigrants from that West African…
“Inflation, high prices, no to war and destruction,” chanted dozens of retired workers in Shush in Iran’s Khuzestan province. “Livelihood and dignity are our undeniable rights.” Their action was just one of more than a dozen protests or strikes across…
RE’IM, Israel — On July 11, a group of us were taken by our hosts, Vered and Itzik Benayoun, to visit the site of the Nova Festival, now a memorial to the nearly 400 mainly young participants in the all-night…
CHICAGO — Just under 15,000 people attended the American Library Association’s 150th Conference in Chicago June 25-29, with 641 exhibitors coming from 61 different countries. The Pathfinder booth drew people interested in books on crucial questions facing workers today. Pathfinder…
In the face of government indifference to the deadly impact of the spread of the Ebola virus in the northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, doctors, nurses and other medical personnel went on strike July 7 over the fact they’ve never…
