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Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022‘Send me your newspaper’ I ran across one of your newspapers that was left in a cell after I moved in. It wasn’t the full edition, but I loved the articles on Ukraine and the way you support the overworked…
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Protests demand Australia grant visas to 1,000s of asylum-seekers
Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022
SYDNEY — A protest set for Nov. 6 here will challenge the Australian Labor Party government’s failure to carry out a promise to grant permanent visas to thousands of asylum-seekers. For years they have been barred by successive governments from…
Meeting discusses political legacy of Thomas Sankara
Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022WASHINGTON — Some 30 people, many originally from Africa, came together here Oct. 17 to discuss the political legacy of Thomas Sankara, the central leader of the 1983-87 revolution in Burkina Faso and the country’s president. This is the 35th…
San Bernardino Amazon workers fight for a raise
Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. —“We want safety, no retaliation,” several hundred community members and unionists chanted, joining over 100 workers from Amazon’s largest air freight facility on the West Coast, called KSBD Oct. 14. They carried signs saying, “Prime shoppers beware,…
Join protests to oppose US economic war on Cuba!
Vol. 86/No. 41 - November 7, 2022Demonstrations and other activities will take place in more than a dozen cities across the U.S., Canada and the U.K. from Oct. 28 to Nov. 3 calling for the end to Washington’s more than 60-year-long economic war on Cuba. The…
U.S. Steel workers rally in fight for new national contract
Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022MERRILLVILLE, Ind. — More than 200 United Steelworkers members from U.S. Steel’s Gary Works braved rain and stiff winds to send a message to the corporation’s CEO, David Burritt, who was speaking here Oct. 11 to the local chapter of…
As 2022 vote looms, Democratic Party ramps up attacks on constitutional rights
Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022With just three weeks before midterm elections, Democrats are ratcheting up their anti-Donald Trump crusade to a fever pitch, with more televised congressional show trial hearings into the Jan. 6, 2021, melee at the Capitol and the House select committee’s…
San Francisco airport strikers win victory, gain wage raise
Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022
SAN FRANCISCO — After three days on strike, over 1,000 cooks, servers, dishwashers, baristas, lounge attendants and cashiers at San Francisco’s International Airport won a new contract Sept. 28. They got a $5 an hour wage increase over two years,…
Inflation, slow-up in production deepen crisis for working people
Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022Rising prices are having a devastating impact on workers’ lives in the U.S., across the advanced capitalist world and, especially, in the semi-colonial countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America, with no end in sight. The capitalist crisis increasingly involves…
Temple University graduate assistants rally for new contract
Vol. 86/No. 40 - October 31, 2022PHILADELPHIA — Unionized graduate assistants at Temple University protested outside the school’s board of trustees meeting taking place at Charles Library here Oct. 11 demanding a new contract. The demonstration, organized by Temple University Graduate Student Assistants, American Federation of…