San Diego hotel workers strike for better pay, job conditions

Vol. 88/No. 36 - September 30, 2024

SAN DIEGO — Picketing at four locations surrounding the large Hilton Bayfront Hotel here, striking UNITE HERE Local 30 members are fighting for pay increases and improved working conditions. More than 700 went on strike Sept 1.  Local 30 President…


Lessons from 1979 Maoist-Klan shootout in Greensboro

Vol. 88/No. 36 - September 30, 2024

I really got a lot out of the feature article in the Sept. 2 issue of the Militant, “Forging a proletarian party in the class struggle today: Socialist Workers Party uses Marxist program and party’s experiences to set course.”  I…


Nurses in Sydney strike over wages, hours, staff levels

Vol. 88/No. 36 - September 30, 2024
Some 2,000 nurses and midwives rally in Sydney, Australia, Sept. 10, part of 12-hour strike there and other cities in New South Wales state, demanding 15% wage raise, reduced hours.

SYDNEY — Chanting, singing and dancing, up to 2,000 nurses and midwives rallied outside the office of New South Wales state Premier Christopher Minns in Kogarah here Sept. 10. Hundreds also rallied in Parramatta, as well as in other cities…


Prosecutions of Canadian Freedom Convoy leaders blow to workers’ rights

Vol. 88/No. 36 - September 30, 2024

MONTREAL — An unprecedented yearlong “free speech” frame-up trial of Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two spokespersons for the 2022 truckers’ Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa, ended Sept. 13. Justice Heather Perkins-McVey has six months to deliver her verdict. If…


SCR Medical Transportation drivers win strike, higher wages

Vol. 88/No. 36 - September 30, 2024

CHICAGO — After nearly three weeks on strike, drivers at SCR Medical Transportation ratified their first contract Sept. 5. It includes significant pay raises, job and safety protections, and other gains.  “Get up! Get down! Chicago is a union town!”…


Millions of women joined in advancing Cuba’s revolution

Vol. 88/No. 36 - September 30, 2024
Literacy brigadistas set out for Cuba’s rural areas in 1961. Over 100,000 volunteers joined effort to teach workers and farmers to read so they could fully participate in the revolution.

Women and the Cuban Revolution is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for September. It includes speeches and documents by Fidel Castro, the central leader of Cuba’s socialist revolution; Vilma Espín, the founding leader of the Federation of Cuban…


Unionists locked out at two Quebec sites join forces

Vol. 88/No. 36 - September 30, 2024

MONTREAL — Two busloads of locked-out members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) at the McKesson distribution center in Drummondville, about an hour and a half drive from Montreal, joined locked-out CSN workers on their picket line here…


Boeing workers on strike after 16 years without a new contract

Vol. 88/No. 36 - September 30, 2024

RENTON, Wash. — A major showdown has erupted between some 33,000 workers, organized by International Association of Machinists District Lodge 751, and Boeing, one of two major producers of commercial airplanes worldwide. The Machinists shut down production Sept. 13 after…



Defend Cuba’s socialist revolution

Vol. 88/No. 36 - September 30, 2024

The brutal effects of the U.S. rulers’ six-decades-long economic, trade and financial war against the Cuban people deserve the condemnation of working people everywhere. Our unions should demand the immediate and unconditional end to the embargo, as well as Washington’s…