ERBIL, Kurdistan Region, Iraq — The 17th Erbil International Book Fair opened here April 9 with thousands participating, a registration of the gains of the oppressed Kurdish people in their centurylong struggle for national rights and a homeland. To highlight…
LOS ANGELES — UNITE HERE Local 11 organized a daylong action April 15 to demand a contract with higher wages and affordable health benefits for LSG Sky Chefs workers in front of the company’s facility at Los Angeles International Airport.…
Below are excerpts from “Capitalism’s long hot winter has begun,” the title article in New International no. 12. It addresses two questions, the reasons behind the deepening crisis of the U.S.-led imperialist world “order” today and the need to build…
LONDON — “We will win!” some 200 supporters of an Israeli victory in its war against Hamas chanted at a spirited rally here April 2. The chant was led by the speaker, Yoseph Haddad, an Israeli Arab, who joined the…
SEATTLE — Early in the morning April 2, some 50 masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agents entered the Mt. Baker Roofing Company warehouse in Bellingham, Washington, a city 25 miles south of the U.S.-Canadian border. They arrested…
April 17, 2000 NEW YORK — The first of a series of public forums organized by the AFL-CIO on immigrant rights took place here April 1. A feature of the event was reports by immigrant workers involved in battles for…
SAN FRANCISCO — In their second week on strike, drivers for Flying Food Group, a catering company at the San Francisco International Airport, rallied at the airport April 7. “We’re united, we’re solid,” Norber Naguit, a driver with nine years…
WASHINGTON — A meeting organized by the branch of the Socialist Workers Party here was held March 22 to celebrate the life of Omari Musa, a veteran cadre of some 57 years building the communist movement in the U.S. and…
UNION CITY, N.J. — In the opening four days of the fight to get the Socialist Workers Party on the ballot in New Jersey, 650 signatures were gathered, as well as 23 subscriptions to the Militant and 24 books by…
