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…
Caravans and rallies protesting Washington’s decadeslong economic war against Cuba were organized Sept. 26 in at least 12 U.S. cities, in Canada, the U.K. and five other countries. From Miami to Minneapolis, Seattle to Mexico City and Buenos Aires, Argentina,…
WORCESTER, Mass. — Nurses on strike against St. Vincent Hospital here marked a historic 202 days on strike Sept. 25 — the longest nurses strike in Massachusetts history — with an expanded picket line called “Worcester Solidarity Day.” Some 200…
Below is an updated statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New Jersey. Her statement is available in English, Spanish, Korean and Gujarati on the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission’s website. Patch.com, an online news…
(For a French version of this article, click here.) Blaise Compaore, the iron-fisted ruler of Burkina Faso for almost three decades, will stand trial along with 13 others before a military tribunal Oct. 11 for the 1987 assassination of former…
