“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…
ATLANTA — Tessie Prevost, one of four 6-year-old girls who faced down violent mobs to desegregate New Orleans schools, died July 6. Sixty-four years ago Prevost, along with Leona Tate and Gail Etienne, were escorted by federal marshals as they…
A battle with big stakes for all working people and the labor movement is unfolding in Canada. Almost 10,000 rail workers at Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Kansas City have walked out or been locked out in a fight against…
September 6, 1999 HAVANA — Nearly 600 youth from 66 countries gathered here August 15-18 to participate in the International Seminar of Youth and Students on Neoliberalism. The last day conference participants filled the National Theater for a closing session…
MONTREAL — Almost 10,000 rail engineers, conductors and dispatchers, members of the Teamsters union, walked off the job at 12:01 a.m. Aug. 22 after Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Kansas City railroads, Canada’s two cross-country rail lines, refused to sign…
CHICAGO — After voting overwhelmingly to strike, hundreds of members of the Illinois Nurses Association walked off the job at the University of Illinois Hospital here when their contract expired Aug. 19. This kicked off a weeklong work stoppage, in…
Fruit in UK: ‘Workers need to take political power’ MANCHESTER, England — “Workers need to rely on ourselves if we’re to fundamentally change the conditions we face,” Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, told participants at…
DALLAS — In 105 degree heat, Dallas Black Dance Theatre performers and 200 of their supporters turned out for a spirited rally and picket in front of One Arts Plaza here Aug. 17. After the dancers voted to join the…
SYDNEY — The Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, Dennis Richter, campaigned here for several days in mid-August along with Robert Aiken, the Communist League candidate for mayor of Liverpool. CL campaigners took advantage of building for the…
Click below for a downloadable pdf of this article MONTREAL — On Aug. 24, with much of Canada’s freight rail and commuter train system at a standstill following three days of company lockouts and union walkouts, the Canada Industrial Relations…
