Along the Mexican border over 10,000 immigrant workers per day, including many families, attempted to cross into the U.S. to seek asylum the week before the end of Washington’s COVID-era border policy known as Title 42. It expired May 12. …
SHERBROOKE, Quebec — Some 1,000 public sector workers in Quebec and their supporters marched and rallied here May 13 outside the convention of the Coalition for Quebec’s Future (CAQ), the province’s governing party. They are demanding better pay, protection from…
MANCHESTER, England — Forty production workers at Saica Paper UK here have been carrying out a series of one-day strikes for higher pay and better job conditions. The Unite union members voted 97% in favor of strike action after rejecting…
COLUMBUS JUNCTION, Iowa — Workers at the Tyson Foods pork processing plant here and at West Liberty Foods, owned by Iowa Turkey Cooperatives, have begun union organizing drives with United Food and Commercial Workers union Local 431. The 1,400 workers…
Moscow’s troops have been pushed back by Ukrainian forces in Bakhmut, the primary target of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s winter offensive. The retreat was a blow to Putin who predicted control of the city by May 9, a celebration marking…
BY ANDRÉS MENDOZA, DAG TIRSÉN AND PAMELA HOLMES LONDON — Thousands of nurses and other health workers took part in a one-day work stoppage at half the hospitals across England May 1, in a long-running dispute with the government over…
After five days of trading missile fire, the Israeli government and Gaza-based Islamic Jihad agreed to a cease-fire May 13. The latest round of fighting — the 15th major clash between the Israeli army and Islamist militias in Gaza since…
According to the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Unions, teachers in at least 32 cities across Iran “went to the streets once again to raise their rightful demands” May 9. The income of working and retired teachers “has not…
On the 98th anniversary of his birthday this month, the Militant is featuring a selection from Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. Barnes said that “Malcolm…
