WHITING, Ind. — Ever since they were locked out by BP over three months ago, the 800 members of United Steelworkers Local 7-1 here have been on the picket line 24/7 and won a lot of support. Visitors to the…
PHILADELPHIA — Some 160 workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 274, struck the Sheraton Hotel, the largest in Philadelphia, June 21. A four-day walkout last October ended without a new contract. The workers are seeking wages of $30 per hour,…
OBERLIN, Ohio — The SWP opened its 2026 International Conference here June 11-14 under a large banner reading, “The Socialist Workers Party exists, born in class struggle. Build it!” SWP National Secretary Jack Barnes, at podium, gave the political report.…
MANCHESTER, England — Anti-immigrant riots broke out for several days in parts of Northern Ireland after a June 8 brutal knife attack on Stephen Ogilvie in Belfast by Hadi Alodid, originally from Sudan. The riots occurred as both the Labour…
MONTREAL — “The Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) deplores the government’s legal harassment of asylum seekers by pursuing their case all the way to the Supreme Court to restrict their access to the early childhood education and care network.…
NEWARK, N.J. — Families of immigrants held at Delaney Hall detention center here lined up to visit their loved ones on Father’s Day June 21. Prison authorities had suspended visits for a week in a vindictive response to a hunger…
President Donald Trump joined other government leaders for a Group of Seven summit held at a French resort June 16-17. This is one of the main imperialist blocs set up to confront challenges to the capitalist world order that emerged…
Washington and Tehran signed a 14-point “Memorandum of Understanding” June 17. But this is not a “peace” agreement, it’s a move by Washington to work with Iran’s capitalist rulers to achieve the stability the U.S. rulers want to advance their…
Despite devastating losses to its military, police and other parts of its repressive apparatus, as well as the destruction of many factories during the recent wars with Washington and Israel, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei claimed the ceasefire it…
Actions in Miami, across US, back Cuba’s nat’l sovereignty MIAMI — The U.S. rulers’ escalating economic and political war against Cuba and its national sovereignty are worsening the humanitarian crisis facing the Cuban people. Groups from the National Network on…
