With picket signs that read “Greed kills/nurses heal” and “Safe staffing saves lives,” nurses at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore held a 24-hour strike against systematic understaffing July 6. The same day nearly 1,200 nurses struck two Ascension hospitals…
PHILADELPHIA — Three days after winning a contract through a nine-day strike at the Sheraton Downtown, UNITE HERE Local 274 workers from that hotel were on the picket line at the Hilton Garden Inn July 2 supporting their union brothers…
PAWTUCKET, R.I. — The Cape Verdean Museum here is unique. Its displays of photos, posters, crafts and publications, almost all donated by community members, give a vivid feel for the experiences of many generations of immigrants from that West African…
ATLIT, Israel — Jonathan Silberman and Ólöf Andra Proppé, members of the Communist League in the U.K., Bob Aiken from the CL in Australia, and Lea Sherman and Rachele Fruit from the Socialist Workers Party in the U.S. toured the Atlit…
BALTIMORE — Nurses at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital held a 24-hour strike here starting 7 a.m. July 6 to protest the hospital bosses’ refusal to deal with patient safety and chronic understaffing that leads to nurses seeking other jobs. There…
MONTREAL — Joe Young, left, the Communist League candidate in the St. Laurent district for next October’s provincial election, campaigned door to door here June 24. Supporters of Young’s campaign are gathering the 100 signatures needed to get him on…
The Spanish edition of Revolution and the Road to Peace in Colombia: The Example of the Cuban Revolution by Fidel Castro is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. The selection, “For revolutionaries victory in war depends on…
Bourgeois newspapers everywhere have generated stories about the narrow victories of two members of the Democratic Socialists of America, along with a former member, in Democratic Party primary elections in New York City June 23. All were endorsed by DSA…
MINNEAPOLIS — As part of nationwide actions called by the National Network On Cuba to protest U.S. aggression against Cuba, the Minnesota Cuba Committee, Solidarity Committee on the Americas, the Socialist Workers Party and others carried out a week of…
FORT MORGAN, Colo. — Some 1,700 International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 455 members who work at the giant Cargill meat processing plant here have been locked out by the company’s profit-drive bosses since May 20. The company has significant influence…
