OSHAWA, Ontario — The 4,300 Unifor-organized workers at General Motors in Canada voted up a new contract Oct. 15 by 80%. This followed Ford’s union members, who approved their contract by a much closer 54% margin Sept. 24. The union…
MIAMI — Nearly 200 members of UNITE HERE Local 355 marched in the rain and rallied outside the LSG Sky Chef catering facility near Miami International Airport to back workers’ demand for an immediate raise to $20 an hour. Union…
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Some 135 members of Public and Private Workers of Canada Local 8 set up strike picket lines Sept. 28 outside Lantic’s Rogers Sugar refinery. The previous contract had expired in February. Pickets also set up on…
Hamas’ Oct. 7 pogrom in Israel had one objective — kill or take hostage as many Jews as possible, a step on the way to their overall goal of implementing a “final solution,” eliminating Jews from the Middle East. It…
NEW YORK — Opponents of Washington’s six-decade-long economic war against Cuba will march and rally here Oct. 28 and in other cities worldwide that week. The actions are being organized to draw attention to the Nov. 2-3 U.N. General Assembly…
On Oct. 15, 30 cars on a loaded Burlington Northern coal train passing near Pueblo, Colorado, derailed and brought a bridge crashing down onto Interstate Highway 25. It crushed a semitruck, killing the driver. This was the 177th derailment reported…
The deadly Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom against Jews in Israel highlighted the danger of Jew-hating violence worldwide as the crisis of capitalism grows. Below are excerpts from “Theses on the Jewish question” and “Open the doors to victims of Hitler’s…
Workers and our unions have a critical stake in taking on and fighting to defeat every form of Jew-hatred wherever it appears. That’s what candidates and members of the Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and…
November 2, 1998 LONDON — In a flagrant abuse of the national sovereignty of Chile, British police arrested the country’s former military dictator, Augusto Pinochet, Oct. 17 on a warrant issued by two Spanish judges. The London Times pointed out…
Most big-business news reports on the pogrom carried out by Hamas that killed over 1,300 people in Israel Oct. 7 leave out one important fact — hundreds of Arab citizens of Israel rushed to aid the victims of the Tehran-backed…
