BROCKVILLE, Ontario — Morale remains high on the picket line of provincial government workers in front of the Brockville and Area Community Living Association here, where members of Ontario Public Service Employees Union Local 441 have been on strike since…
WHITING, Ind. — Members of United Steelworkers Local 7-1 locked out by the bosses at BP here got a rousing greeting as they marched in the huge Whiting Pierogi Fest Parade July 24. On the sidelines thousands applauded, and many…
LOS ANGELES — A town hall meeting organized by city officials here July 9 turned into an angry protest against their indifference to the horrific conditions that continue to confront workers who live near the Lineage plant in Boyle Heights…
AUSTIN, Texas — Some 2,700 people attended this year’s National Federation of the Blind convention here July 3-8. Another 600 listened to the proceedings online. Delegations attended from Hawaii and Puerto Rico, as well as across the U.S. For the…
MINNEAPOLIS — Some 40 people attended an event here calling for independence for Puerto Rico held at El Colegio High School July 18. “Our land is under attack and we will never stop fighting for it,” Miguel Fiol, a longtime…
BERKELEY, Calif. — More than 50 hotel workers and their supporters picketed outside the Graduate Hotel here July 24 as they prepare to vote for union representation by UNITE HERE Local 2 in a week. “They want better working conditions,”…
Protests broke out all across Ukraine over President Volodymyr Zelensky’s July 15 dismissal of Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s defense minister. He is associated with the successful use of drones to take the fight to oil refineries and other military targets in…
Hoping to intimidate working people and head off further challenges to its dictatorial rule, the reactionary Islamist regime in Iran has stepped up the pace of executions of political opponents, especially in the wake of the war with Washington. But,…
This is a shortened version of the talk given by Jonathan Silberman at the “Contemporary Antisemitism” conference in Haifa, Israel, July 7-9. Silberman is director of Pathfinder Books in London and a leader of the Communist League in the U.K.…
Thousands of youth gathered in a protest zone in central New Delhi let out a cheer July 25 upon hearing that Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan had resigned in face of a growing movement known as the Cockroach Janta Party. The…
