LINCOLN, Neb. — Under the notorious anti-union Railway Labor Act, when rail union contracts near expiration, workers are barred from taking strike action and face years of federal National Mediation Board-controlled negotiations, reviews by Presidential Emergency Boards, various “cooling off”…
Letters keep going to the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee urging it to overturn the ban imposed by Jackson Correctional Institution authorities in Malone on Militant issue no. 17 at the end of April. This impoundment violates prisoners’…
Central to the Democrats’ efforts to hold onto the White House in 2024 are relentless attacks against their main opponent, Donald Trump, including a four-part legal offensive that threatens constitutional rights crucial for working people. They’re determined to get…
MONTREAL — Lawyers representing Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two of the main spokespeople in the 2022 truckers’ Freedom Convoy, delivered closing arguments in an Ottawa courtroom Aug. 23. Lich and Barber’s trial began last September. Their arguments centered on…
LONDON — The 24-story Grenfell Tower apartment building in west London — with broken fire alarms and no sprinkler system — was wrapped in highly flammable cladding, which went up in a fast-spreading blaze in 2017, leaving 72 people dead…
PORT MOODY, British Columbia — A rally and picnic was held at Rocky Point Park here Sept. 6 by rail workers fighting against Canadian government intervention ending their strike at the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Kansas City railroads. They’re…
PITTSBURGH — Socialist Workers Party vice presidential candidate Dennis Richter discussed the party’s campaign with Helen Huber, an operating room nurse at West Penn Hospital, above, at a Sept. 4 rally here called by the Service Employees International Union. Nurses…
SYDNEY — Over a hundred refugees and supporters of refugee rights gathered at Dorothy Reserve in Bankstown here Aug. 31, protesting conditions faced by asylum-seekers on longterm bridging visas in Australia. They called on the government to grant them permanent…
The four-months-long fight continues to end the ban on Militant issue no. 17, imposed by prison authorities at Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone, Florida, at the end of April. The Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee upheld the impoundment…
CHICAGO — Over 200 United Airlines flight attendants and their supporters picketed at O’Hare International Airport here Aug. 28, demanding a new contract. Similar actions took place the same day at some 20 other airports. Chants included “What do we…
