MONTREAL — “We’re determined to fight to win a living wage, safe working conditions and livable work schedules,” Mathieu Gagnon, secretary of the United Grocers Workers Union and picket captain since the workers went on strike March 30, told the…
GREELEY, Colo. — “JBS makes billions off our broken bodies. To them we are not worth as much as the beef going down the line,” John Trimble told the Militant. The 69-year-old Trimble says he has worked at the plant…
PLESSISVILLE, Quebec — “The biggest issue in our strike is to be treated with respect. They don’t treat us like human beings,” Alain Martineau, one of 100 United Steelworkers walking the picket line at Cooperative Citadelle’s maple syrup factory, told…
GREELEY, Colo. — Members of the Socialist Workers Party and Communist League in Canada have spent a few weeks here in late March and early April to support and learn from the strike by 3,800 workers, members of United Food…
In a victory for readers of the Militant behind bars and all defenders of free speech and prisoners’ rights, the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee informed the paper April 1 that it had overturned the impoundment by prison…
HAMMOND, Ind. — Hundreds of members of the United Steelworkers union, including oil refinery workers locked out by British Petroleum, and members of other unions in this area rallied outside of the main office of the Northern Indiana Public Service…
MONTREAL — Newly declassified Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Service files have confirmed that in the 1960s and ’70s the Canadian rulers’ top spy outfit systematically infiltrated and sought to disrupt Indigenous and other political groups. The RCMP program “was…
The 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, the 1986 explosion and fire destroying reactor No. 4 of the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine, is April 26. But Moscow’s over-four-year-long war attempting to seize that sovereign country risks…
UNION CITY, N.J. — Socialist Workers Party members are winning support to put the party’s candidates, Joanne Kuniansky for U.S. Senate and Craig Honts for U.S. Congress, on the ballot in New Jersey. Many workers are pleased to sign up…
