ALSIP, Ill. — Sixty mechanics, parts-counter workers and other members of International Association of Machinists Mechanics’ Union Local 701 went out on strike at M&K Truck Centers in this south Chicago suburb Nov. 1. They are pushing back against the…
COVENTRY, England — Beginning Nov. 7, 1,000 Amazon workers at the distribution center here carried out a three-day strike, fighting for union recognition and a wage raise. The members of the General Municipal and Boilermakers union announced they will walk…
Nov. 9-10 is the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht — the Night of the Broken Glass — the nationwide pogrom that marked a decisive turning point in Nazi Germany’s war to exterminate the Jews. Armed with axes and sledgehammers, with gasoline…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Seven members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 1 from Chicago drove here Nov. 3 to reinforce fellow BCTGM Local 390G members on strike against International Flavors and Fragrances. Almost 200 union members walked…
The Socialist Workers Party’s annual Party-Building Fund has two weeks to go, with a goal of raising at least $140,000 for the SWP to get out its program and activities to working people around the world. The SWP and its…
The brutal slaughter of over 1,400 men, women and children in Israel Oct. 7 changed world politics forever, shocking millions of working people worldwide. On doorsteps, union picket lines and at demonstrations against the Hamas pogrom, members and candidates of…
SYDNEY — Chanting “Killer stone — Ban it now!” thousands of construction workers, members of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, marched here Oct. 26 and rallied outside the New South Wales state Parliament. The protest was called by…
The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for an end to Washington’s embargo of Cuba Nov. 2, as it has done each year since 1992. The economic war waged by every U.S. administration — Democratic and Republican alike…
WASHINGTON — Over 75 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for a vigil Oct. 28 commemorating the death of Zhina Amini, the young Kurdish woman who died one year ago Sept. 16 after her arrest by the hated “morality police”…
The Biden administration and its boosters in the liberal capitalist media keep trying to puff up the U.S. economy as improving, thanks to “Bidenomics.” They point to some official government statistics, claiming gross domestic product rose 4.9% in the third-quarter,…
