SAN JOSE, Calif. — As they enter their second week on strike, over 1,500 bus drivers, light-rail operators, mechanics and office workers here, members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 265, continue to maintain strong picket lines in their fight against…
From the December 2022 SWP convention resolution, “The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us.” No nonproliferation zones, arms limitation treaties, or diplomatic pacts between imperialist powers and other nuclear-armed regimes can or will advance the fight to stop…
MONTREAL — “Workers have the same interests in the U.S., Canada and around the world. We need to stand against Washington and Ottawa’s efforts to use their tariff confrontation to line us up behind them and against each other,” Craig…
OAKLAND, Calif. — The Socialist Workers Party spring campaign to introduce working people to the party’s 2025 candidates, expand the readership of the Militant, get out books on revolutionary working-class politics, and raise contributions to the Militant Fighting Fund gets…
MONTREAL — Some 600 workers at Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth Hotel, members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN), have been locked out here since Nov. 20. This is the largest hotel in Quebec, with 950 rooms. Since the…
BIRMINGHAM, England — Some 400 refuse workers, members of Unite the Union, are on strike here at three City Council-run depots. Pickets walk slowly in front of refuse trucks as they leave the depots, slowing down the bosses’ strikebreaking efforts.…
NEWARK, N.J. — Some 75 United Airlines flight attendants, members of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, and their supporters joined a spirited action at Newark Liberty International Airport here March 19. It was part of nearly 20 actions at airports…
NEW YORK — More than 100 people from the U.S. and Canada participated in a two-day conference here March 15-16 to discuss what faces the Cuban people today and plan activities to press Washington to end its more than 65-year…
March 27, 2000 At the Barakova Mine in Ukraine, 81 miners were killed March 11 in one of the republic’s deadliest mining disasters. In addition to those killed, four escaped and several more were injured. Some 200 others escaped other…
Ukrainian working people are determined to keep fighting to defend their country’s sovereignty, and have largely stood their ground under assault from Moscow’s invading military over the past three years. The struggle continues as conflicts between ruling classes worldwide for…
