CENTER CITY, Minn. — Some 170 workers in Chisago County Health and Human Services and its government center have been on strike since May in a fight over wages and health insurance. “The county healthcare plan has a family deductible…
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…
CROCKETT, Calif. — C&H Sugar bosses have stepped up their attack on the three-week-old strike by 91 warehouse workers at its plant here, members of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 6. On July 2 C&H moved the Tai Herald,…
Egg prices surged to unheard of heights over the past several years. The bosses of the giant egg company monopolies blamed it on an outbreak of bird flu. But what was really behind the price hikes was the monopolies combined…
