HAVANA, May 1 — The capitalist media, from the New York Times to the Miami Herald to BBC, ran articles today proclaiming “Cuba cancels May Day parade” or something similar. These assertions are false, as Militant reporters and others actually…
MONTREAL — A 12-day nationwide strike by 120,000 federal government workers ended May 1 with a tentative agreement between the Public Service Alliance of Canada and the government. Wage increases were the overriding issue in the strike. Workers will vote…
SAN FRANCISCO — Alcatraz Island ferryboat crews have organized a union and are fighting for a contract, 16 years after Hornblower Cruises took over the service and drove the union out. They held a spirited rally at Pier 33 here…
In Militant issue no. 17, the headline on page 6 was misspelled. It should have read “Back Ukraine independence fight!”
LOS ANGELES — Alejandro García del Toro, deputy chief of the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C., and Javier Levy Hernández, a first secretary there, spoke to a community meeting of 75 people at the International Association of Machinists union hall…
MONTREAL — In one of the largest labor actions in Canada in decades, more than 155,000 federal government workers, members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, set up picket lines from one end of the country to the other…
MANCHESTER, England — Nurses, members of the Royal College of Nursing union, who before last December had never gone on strike in their 106-year history, voted April 14 to reject the government’s most recent pay offer, against their national officers’…
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Workers, farmers and small-business people here continue to press for action to clean up the area and protect their health after the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment, fire and burn-off of toxic vinyl chloride. They’re…
Striking a serious blow at constitutional protections, Department of Justice prosecutors got a federal grand jury in Florida April 18 to indict three members of the African People’s Socialist Party and Uhuru Movement on trumped-up charges of being “foreign agents.”…
