CHESHIRE, England — “The guys are absolutely 100% determined we’re going to win,” Gary Fairclough, Unite regional officer, told the Militant at their lively picket line outside Abriso Jiffy packaging plant here. “We can’t be having any withdrawal of sick…
Rachele Fruit: ‘Workers in the US, UK face common enemy’ LONDON — Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, ended her weeklong visit to the U.K. at a public meeting here Aug. 24, organized by the Communist League’s…
In yet another escalation in Washington’s aggression against Venezuela’s sovereignty, U.S. officials seized a private jet used by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro for state business and flew it from the Dominican Republic to Florida Sept. 2. The seizure takes place…
FORT WORTH, Texas — “We need to build a party of labor for all of us workers,” Dennis Richter, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, told truck driver Patrick Edgar Brooks at the Pilot truck stop here…
LONDON — Around 100 day-surgery nurses at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospitals have been in a fight with bosses since June over unsustainable increases to their work shifts. Management first increased hospital hours from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. to 7 a.m.-8…
MONTREAL — “We haven’t seen a class confrontation in Canada on this scale in decades,” Philippe Tessier, a Canadian National rail conductor and Teamster union strike picket captain, told a Militant Labor Forum here Aug. 24. In the final analysis,…
Thousands of nurses in Iran have joined strikes that began Aug. 2 and spread to over 60 hospitals and health centers in 40 cities across the country. Hundreds of EMTs have joined the strike. Along with some supporters, they lined…
A month after Ukrainian forces drove into the Kursk region of Russia Aug. 6, opposition to the war is growing among Russian conscripts and their families. The Ukrainian offensive is aimed at dealing blows to Moscow’s invasion led by Russian…
As college campuses across the U.S. reopen for the new semester, pro-Hamas forces are returning to attacks against Jews there and their campaign against Israel. Several dozen protesters picketed outside Columbia University Sept. 3 on the first day of class.…
SAN FRANCISCO — More than 2,000 hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 2, went on a three-day strike here Sept. 1, part of a nationwide fight against moves by hotel chains Marriott, Hyatt and Hilton to increase workloads while…
