HOOPESTON, Ill. — Members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 1 have been on strike at Teasdale Latin Foods cannery here since June 1, fighting company moves to reimpose a two-tier pay scale and change work schedules…
Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence in President Donald Trump’s administration, released a long-repressed House Intelligence Committee report July 23, documenting the efforts of FBI and CIA bosses — under the presidency of Barack Obama — to fabricate and…
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…
In March, the government of José Raúl Mulino, president of Panama, announced plans to reform the country’s social security system, sparking widespread protests by unions organizing teachers, nurses, construction workers and banana farmworkers. He approved the “reform” law March 18.…
MONTREAL — Federal prosecutors are pushing for “extraordinary” harsh prison sentences for Tamara Lich and Chris Barber. The two were prominent spokespeople in the 2022 Freedom Convoy organized by truckers demanding the repeal of government-imposed COVID mandates that threatened their…
LAVAL, Quebec — Twenty-four hours after 100 workers walked off the job in a one-day strike July 8, the Heroux-Devtek bosses, rather than negotiating with their union, the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN), locked them out. Heroux-Devtek is the…
There is growing interest in the Socialist Workers Party and its candidates today, spurred by the party’s activities in support of labor battles and its working-class response to deepgoing shifts in world politics. It reflects workers’ increasing recognition that neither…
