Two bakery workers were killed on the job in North Carolina in recent weeks, among the thousands killed at work every year. The AFL-CIO reported last month that in 2020, 340 workers were killed because of hazardous conditions on the…
Another woman died on the job in North Carolina May 3 after getting stuck inside an industrial bread machine for an hour, the second such death in the state in three weeks. Virginia López Severiano, 44, was cleaning an industrial…
The May 2 leak of a draft Supreme Court ruling signed by Justice Samuel Alito overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision has set off a debate across the country. The leak was met with a hysterical response from the…
In recent weeks U.S. bosses have been posting record profits, 35% above the year before. “The numbers are in” an article in Bloomberg boasts, “2021 was the most profitable year for American corporations since 1950.” While working people struggle to…
Over 15,000 Ontario construction workers went on strike May 1, paralyzing the high- and low-rise home-building industry across the Canadian province. The central issue is the need for adequate wage increases to deal with the impact of skyrocketing inflation on…
STURTEVANT, Wis. — More than 1,000 members of the United Auto Workers walked off the job May 2 at two Case New Holland plants. The 430 members of UAW Local 807 in Burlington, Iowa, and 600 Local 180 members here,…
HAVANA — “Since you haven’t had a chance to attend the book fair during your stay here, we decided to bring a piece of it to you,” said Odalys Cárdenas of the Central Organization of Cuban Workers (CTC). She was…
LONDON — Volunteers from five countries staffed the Pathfinder booth at the first London Book Fair in three years April 5-7. Their goal was to expand the distribution of books that present the lessons of decades of revolutionary working-class struggle,…
