The Socialist Workers Party is running a national slate of candidates for office, joining union struggles, defending Israel’s right to exist as a refuge for the Jews and fighting to unify the working class, as it presents a working-class road…
PHILADELPHIA — Some 10,000 city workers, members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees District Council 33, walked off the job July 1. The union represents sanitation workers, 911 emergency call center dispatchers, library assistants, as well…
On June 27, Robert E. McGuire, acting U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, approved an emergency appeal by Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a sheet metal apprentice and SMART union member from Maryland. Abrego Garcia is being held in immigration…
President Donald Trump issued an executive order that took effect June 9 banning residents of 12 countries from entering the United States and placing harsh visa restrictions on those from another seven, including Cuba, along with Venezuela, Burundi, Laos, Sierra…
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — After 62 days on strike, Teamsters drivers and helpers at the airline catering company Flying Food Group here at San Francisco International Airport returned to work with a significant pay raise and a year of…
MONTREAL — DHL Express Canada, an international package delivery company based in Germany, locked out its 2,100 workers across Canada June 8. Workers voted down the bosses’ contract offer by 97% in May. The central issues are winning wage increases…
OAKLAND, Calif. — Some 1,300 members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers at University of California San Francisco-run Benioff Children’s Hospital went out on strike June 18 against bosses’ moves to bust their union. The NUHW represents clinic workers,…
After beating back a three-month, U.S. government-led effort to bury him in jail in El Salvador, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was returned to the U.S. June 6. He was immediately thrown in jail in Nashville, Tennessee, held without bond, and allowed…
In the largest work stoppage since the 1979 revolution that overthrew the U.S.-backed dictatorship of the shah and ensuing bourgeois-clerical-led counterrevolution, thousands of truck drivers in Iran held an 11-day strike starting May 22 and ending June 2 — four…
LIVERMORE, Calif. — U.S. immigration forces deported Miguel Lopez, a welder and mechanic at the Wente Vineyards winery here, to Mexico June 7, just hours before a judge issued a temporary restraining order barring his expulsion from the U.S. Lopez,…
