Post Office unionists protest bosses’ moves to slash deliveries

Vol. 90/No. 29 - August 17, 2026

EAGAN, Minn. — As part of nationwide actions sponsored by the American Postal Workers Union, some 40 people picketed and rallied outside the Postal Service Distribution Center here July 28. This was a joint protest organized by the APWU locals…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 90/No. 29 - August 17, 2026

August 20, 2001 ALGIERS — The 15th World Festival of Youth and Students opened Aug. 8 here with some 6,000 delegates from over 100 countries around the world. At the opening ceremony delegates from each country marched into the stadium,…


Nurses win contract, safety gains at Hazelden Betty Ford clinic

Vol. 90/No. 29 - August 17, 2026

CENTER CITY, Minn. — Members of the Minnesota Nurses Association secured their first contract at the Hazelden Betty Ford Rehab clinic here, after over a year of negotiations and a two-week strike that ended July 30. “Great news! We have…


Canada’s rulers use their state to attack unions’ right to strike

Vol. 90/No. 29 - August 17, 2026
Mathieu Klein, left, picket captain for striking Metro workers, tells Craig Honts, SWP con-gressional candidate in New Jersey, July 26 that Canada’s government is backing the bosses.

MONTREAL — Members of the Communist League here and the Socialist Workers Party in the U.S. recently visited the picket lines of 550 striking Metro supermarket warehouse workers in Laval, just north of Montreal, and the 105 locked-out Siemens Electric…


Locked-out Teamsters vote down Cargill contract offer

Vol. 90/No. 29 - August 17, 2026
Locked-out Teamsters vote down Cargill contract offer

Locked-out members of Teamsters Local 455 in Fort Morgan, Colorado, rejected the latest contract offer from Cargill bosses Aug. 3. The tentative contract had been reached July 28. Teamsters Local 455 Business Agent Chris Suazo told the press, “The membership…


US hands off Cuba!

End stifling sanctions, war threats
Vol. 90/No. 29 - August 17, 2026
Cuba solidarity contingent in Puerto Rican People’s Parade in Chicago, June 13. U.S. rulers are escalating attacks on Cuba’s sovereignty and socialist revolution, while targeting its supporters.

Protest slanders, subpoenas on supporters of Cuba In 1959, led by Fidel Castro, Cuba’s workers and peasants made a thoroughgoing social revolution and have defended it arms-in-hand for 67 years. They have inspired workers and oppressed peoples worldwide to seek…


NY SWP candidates: ‘Working class needs to take political power’

Vol. 90/No. 29 - August 17, 2026
“Building the SWP is crucial to help construct the leadership the working class needs to move forward,” Paul Mailhot, SWP candidate for NY governor, said at Aug. 1 Militant Labor Forum.

NEW YORK — “The U.S. rulers and their counterparts across the globe in their sharpening competition for markets, resources and cheap labor, answer by implementing measures to increase the exploitation of working people worldwide,” Paul Mailhot, Socialist Workers Party candidate…



US hands off Cuba! End oil blockade, war threats

Stop gov’t attacks on right to defend Cuba
Vol. 90/No. 28 - August 10, 2026
Protest in defense of Cuba outside Cuban Consulate in Montreal, one of several across world July 26, demands end of U.S. economic blockade. Sign top left says, “Honk to show support.”

July 26 meetings celebrate the victory of the Cuban Revolution NEW YORK — On July 25 some 80 people attended a celebration here of the 73rd anniversary of the opening battle that led to the victory of the Cuban Revolution.…


Protest gov’t attacks on supporters of Cuba!

Vol. 90/No. 28 - August 10, 2026

Steps by the imperialist rulers in Washington toward new wars have always been accompanied by attacks on the unions and on essential constitutional rights of free speech, political activity free from government interference and other protections in the Bill of…