Over 1,400 members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union struck four Kellogg Company cereal plants Oct. 5. They are determined to fight bosses’ demands for a two-tier contract that would deepen divisions among workers, as well…
BARDSTOWN, Ky. — Some 420 United Food and Commercial Workers Local 23D members are going into a fourth week of a strike against Heaven Hill Brands distillery bosses. Kentucky is the heart of the U.S. bourbon industry, and Heaven Hill…
Tens of thousands marched for women’s right to choose abortion Oct. 2 in some 660 demonstrations in cities and towns, large and small, across the U.S. and some internationally. The rallies were called by Women’s March, and coordinated with more…
The drive to reach out broadly with the Militant and books by Socialist Workers Party leaders and other revolutionaries and to raise money to finance the work of the party got off to a great start over the opening weekend…
The 80th anniversary of the 1941 massacre of over 30,000 Jews by Nazi troops at Babyn Yar on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, was commemorated at the site of the slaughter Sept. 29. Over 100,000 others, mostly Jews, but also…
Over 300 participants attended a Sept. 24 meeting in Iraq that called on Baghdad to establish full diplomatic relations with the state of Israel. Because Iraqi law bans calling for normalization with Israel, the meeting took place in Erbil, the…
NEW YORK — Five years after New York Police Sgt. Hugh Barry shot and killed 66-year-old Deborah Danner, who suffered from schizophrenia, the police department finally began an internal disciplinary trial Oct. 5 that could result in his firing. It…
OAKLAND, Calif. — Chants of “What do we want? Contract!” echoed in the downtown here Sept. 30, as hundreds of stationary engineers on strike against Kaiser Permanente hospitals marched to the company’s headquarters. They came from Oakland, San Francisco, San…
About 2,000 nurses, X-ray technicians and medical support workers who belong to Communications Workers of America Local 1133 went on strike at Mercy Hospital in Buffalo, New York, Oct. 1. Hundreds massed outside cheered as fellow workers on duty streamed…
MANCHESTER, England — “We need protection from the way Uber treats us. We need to stand together, it’s the only way,” Nasir Khan, one of about 25 Uber taxi drivers enthusiastically protesting outside its Manchester hub Sept. 29, told the…
