MONTREAL — In a strong pushback against Canada Post bosses and Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government, close to 70% of Canada’s 55,000 postal workers rejected the bosses’ “final” contract proposal. The results were announced Aug. 1, after members of…
The deepening economic challenges China’s state capitalist rulers face today are being exacerbated by a sharp fall in the country’s birth rate, which is becoming one of the most rapid in the world. This has led to a massive contraction…
Some 3,200 members of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 837 went on strike Aug. 4 at three Boeing facilities in Missouri and Illinois, after voting down the company’s second inadequate contract offer in two weeks. The workers…
CHICAGO — “Welcome to the new campaign headquarters of the Socialist Workers Party and Militant Labor Forum Hall!” Naomi Craine, a leader of the Chicago branch of the SWP, said, as she introduced featured speaker Minneapolis SWP mayoral candidate Kevin…
SWP on Minneapolis ballot! ‘Oppose rulers’ drive to war’ Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Minneapolis Kevin Dwire was certified on the ballot July 31. Dwire and campaign supporters turned in petitions with 725 signatures, well over the 500…
Russian President Vladimir Putin is pursuing a murderous war on working people in cities all over Ukraine. At the same time, he willingly sacrifices thousands of Russian toilers in suicidal “meat grinder” attacks on Ukraine positions in the Donetsk region…
Kevin Dwire, center, SWP candidate for mayor of Minneapolis, and Edwin Fruit, right, the party’s candidate for City Council Ward 1, campaigned at the so-called Good Trouble rally there July 17. While many participants expressed support for the Democratic Party,…
TACOMA, Wash. — Hundreds have protested in front of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Northwest Detention Center here over the past two weeks. On July 14 demonstrators brought support for several immigrants facing immigration court hearings that day. Family members of…
MONTREAL — The Communist League is campaigning to put Katy LeRougetel on the ballot for mayor of Montreal and Philippe Tessier for mayor of the borough of Saint Leonard for the November municipal elections. To qualify, LeRougetel needs 200 signatures…
MONTREAL — More than 50 people joined in a demonstration at the Cuban Consulate here July 26 celebrating the 72nd anniversary of the assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks led by Fidel Castro that was the…
