After another round of drone and airstrikes and counterstrikes, the U.S. and Iranian governments sent representatives to Qatar to seek negotiations June 30. Having dealt big blows to Tehran’s military in repeated missile and drone attacks beginning in February, the…
Hundreds demonstrated in defense of continuing Temporary Protected Status for refugees from Haiti in Springfield, Ohio, and other cities following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling June 25. The decision says President Donald Trump’s administration has the right, as the executive…
PHILADELPHIA — “We won! We won!” chanted UNITE HERE Local 274 members who work at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown hotel, after Local President Rosslyn Wuchinich announced a tentative deal for some 200 workers at their strike headquarters June 29. They…
One of the most important developments for working people in the U.S. over the last 75 years was the rise of the Black-led working-class mass movement that exploded across the South in the 1950s and ’60s and succeeded in overthrowing…
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Some 100 nurses and their supporters rallied outside Nationwide Children’s Hospital here June 24 to build support for their fight to win union representation. They began working with AFSCME-United Nurses of America last September. “I’ve been a…
UNITED NATIONS — Tens of thousands across Puerto Rico have been without running water for weeks on end, on top of years of frequent electrical blackouts, Damara González told the United Nations decolonization hearing on the status of Puerto Rico…
SEATTLE — Over 100 Embassy Suites Pioneer Square hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 8, went on strike here June 18. The next day a spirited rally marked Juneteenth — a holiday that began when Union soldiers entered Texas…
The overall number of deaths from two devastating earthquakes 100 miles west of Caracas, Venezuela, are not known, with close to 2,000 found dead and thousands more still missing. What is certain is the scale of the deaths and destruction…
CROCKETT, Calif. — Ninety-one warehouse workers, members of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 6, went on strike June 15 at C&H Sugar here. They voted unanimously to turn down the bosses’ insulting takeback contract and to authorize a strike.…
July 16, 2001 Eight young people are among the first students from the United States to receive scholarships to attend the Latin American School of Medical Sciences in Havana. The more than 3,400 international students at the school come from…
