Three days of protests by thousands of Palestinians in Gaza punctured the illusion promoted by Hamas and its apologists around the world that the Tehran-backed group defends the national interests of the people there. The just demands and courage of…
HAVANA — The main auditorium at the University of Havana was packed with 200 enthusiastic students, graduates and volunteer teachers who came to celebrate 25 years since the founding of Cuba’s University Courses for Older Adults — “Cátedra del Adulto…
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — “Sugarcane cutters are among the most exploited section of the working class in the Dominican Republic,” Jesús Núñez, national coordinator of the Sugarcane Workers Union, told the press at the opening of the group’s second…
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — After a strike battle that lasted 1,411 days — nearly four years — members of UNITE HERE Local 40 registered an important victory ratifying a new contract. “Being brave paid off for workers at the Radisson…
MONTREAL — School workers in Alberta, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, made major wage gains in a series of strikes that began in Fort McMurray last November. There were nine groups of workers and 6,600 workers on…
LOS ANGELES — Workers at LSG Sky Chefs, members of UNITE HERE Local 11, marched and chanted at the airport demanding the bosses agree to a union contract that includes higher wages, better benefits, pensions, as well as dignity and…
SAN JOSE, Calif. — As they entered the third week of their strike here, members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 265 voted by 83% to reject the latest offer by the Valley Transportation Authority March 24. The vote reflects widespread…
SYDNEY — “The capitalist rulers have no solution to their unfolding world crisis except to place the burden onto working people, as they prepare for more wars over markets and resources,” Robert Aiken, the Communist League candidate for Australia’s Senate,…
LOS BAJOS DE HAINA, Dominican Republic — Some 100 workers came to a March 22 meeting here organized by Jesús Nuñez, at right, national coordinator of the Sugarcane Workers Union. The weekly meetings began at the end of January as…
