PHILADELPHIA — Food, beverage, retail and concessions workers at Aramark, members of UNITE HERE Local 274, went on strike at the city’s sports and entertainment complex Sept. 23. The strikers work in the three arenas of Philadelphia’s professional basketball, baseball,…
Fruit: ‘The working class needs to take power’ CINCINNATI — “This is the first time in my life I really feel like something I do can make a difference and change things,” Eric Wood, a cook at a restaurant here,…
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has faced determined resistance for more than two and a half years as Ukrainian working people there fight to defend their country’s sovereignty. Putin is also waging a war on the home front…
PITTSBURGH — “We have accomplished so much as a union at West Penn, Allegheny General, and Allegheny Valley,” Katie Kiesel, a labor and delivery nurse at West Penn Hospital and a member of SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, told the Militant in…
ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Federation of the Blind held its annual convention here. These conventions are the largest gatherings worldwide of blind and low vision people, their families, friends and supporters. This year, some 2,600 registered in person and…
ANTIOCH, Calif. — More than 100 workers went on strike at the Georgia-Pacific Sheetrock plant here Sept. 16 after company bosses refused to offer more than a 3% wage increase. “The big issue is money,” said Jose Rivera, who has…
SYDNEY — Chanting “Union Power!” more than 5,000 construction and other building trades workers marched through the central city here Sept. 18 protesting the Labor government’s takeover of the construction workers’ union. Tens of thousands also marched in Melbourne, and…
On Sept. 21 the Socialist Workers Party began its fall campaign. Over the next eight weeks leading up to and immediately following the presidential election SWP members will expand the reach of the party, its presidential ticket of Rachele Fruit…
BRTIGNY-SUR-ORGE, France — Record numbers of books by Socialist Workers Party leaders and other revolutionaries were sold at Pathfinder Press booth at this year’s Fete de l’Humanite Sept. 13-15. The annual event is organized by the French Communist Party. Hundreds…
