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…
The following is a statement by Alyson Kennedy, who was the SWP 2023 candidate for mayor in Fort Worth, Texas. She won 5.2% of the vote. The 2024 presidential election is well on, with Democratic and Republican candidates throwing their…
Socialist Workers Party and Communist League candidates and members are responding to political opportunities opened up by the continuing crisis of capitalism and the working-class resistance it spawns to meet and exceed this spring’s goal of signing up 1,350 Militant…
Hit with a new wave of cruise missile strikes on Kyiv and aerial attacks on other cities, working people in Ukraine deepened their determination to resist Moscow’s assaults on their independence. At home, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime is tightening…
CINCINNATI — Over 1,100 ramp workers and tug drivers at the DHL Global Hub at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport scored a victory April 28 when they voted 505-287 to be represented by Teamsters union Local 100. The key issues in…
BEDFORD PARK, Ill. — “After 65 days on the picket line, workers at Metal-Matic [here] have ratified their first union contract, winning equal pay for equal work, and an end to major pay disparities,” the United Auto Workers union announced…
SUNNYSIDE, Wash. — Over a hundred workers, family members and other supporters rallied here April 18 outside the Windmill Farms plant demanding the new bosses recognize the United Farm Workers union. Last year workers at the plant, then called Ostrom…
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled May 5 to block the state of Oklahoma from executing death row inmate Richard Glossip. The execution had been scheduled for May 18 after the state’s Pardon and Parole Board voted 2-2 on his appeal…
ABBOTSFORD, British Columbia — “Every day we’re out we become more determined. The support we get on cold wet days means a lot to us,” picket organizer Elizabeth Roux told more than 100 striking members of Canadian Union of Public…
