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…
The Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee has upheld the ban on Militant issue no. 17 that was put in place by the Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone nearly four months ago. More letters are needed in the fight…
“Every class struggle is a political struggle.” With that statement Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, opened his report to an International Socialist Educational Conference in Oberlin, Ohio. “That’s a reality more and more workers in the…
Puerto Rico is in the heart of “hurricane alley” in the Caribbean and has been the target of many brutal storms over the years. In 2017 Hurricane Maria slammed into the island with 155 mph winds and torrential rain, right…
While on a vacation in Hawaii, Socialist Workers Party campaign supporter Val Libby visited Maui, which was devastated one year ago by a wildfire caused by errors made by the power company there, driven by its thirst for profit. “Today…
FORT WORTH, Texas — A lively discussion followed an Aug. 10 Militant Labor Forum I gave here as the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate, on why the working class needs its own party, a party of labor. Ysmemia…
MANCHESTER, England — Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, met with rail workers fighting to win recognition for the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers union here Aug. 19. Israel Akanji and Festus Igho are gateline workers…
“A sea of nurses across the country is demanding their rights,” the Tehran-based Iranian Labour News Agency reported Aug. 18. Their strike, which began in Karaj and Shiraz, has spread to dozens of hospitals, involving thousands. The nurses are demanding…
