VALLEE-JONCTION, Quebec — Over 250 striking meatpackers, members of the Union of Olymel Workers at Vallee-Jonction, marched here May 24 protesting their treatment by the bosses. Some 1,000 union meatpackers walked out when the employers refused to show up for…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — When Margaret Trowe, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Louisville, and supporters took part in a “March for Palestine” May 23 organized by Students for Justice in Palestine, they set up a table with campaign literature,…
BANBURY, England — Workers at the Jacobs Douwe Egberts coffee factory here held a three-day strike starting May 26, one of a series of stoppages to oppose wage and pension cuts, worse job conditions and the imposition of inhumane shift…
MANCHESTER, England — Bosses at Go North West “wanted to take a lot, but we’ve clawed a lot back and have got a stronger union that they have to deal with,” Carl Walmsley, one of hundreds of striking bus drivers,…
One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for June is Teamster Politics by Farrell Dobbs. It tells how Teamsters Local 574 members in Minneapolis in 1934 during the Great Depression learned to wield their union power to win strikes. With…
Quintin Jones, a 41-year-old African American, was executed at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville May 19. After 20 years on death row, he was given a lethal dose of pentobarbital, which attacks the brain and central nervous system and…
ALBANY, N.Y. — Socialist Workers Party candidates Ved Dookhun for Albany mayor and Kathie Fitzgerald for Albany Common Council president have been joined by supporters campaigning in working-class areas of the city since announcing their campaign at a press conference…
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Two hundred bakery and dispatch workers won an improved pay offer from bosses at Hovis and voted to return to work May 24. The workers, members of the Unite union and the Bakers, Food and Allied…
Caravans and rallies are being organized in cities across the U.S., and in Canada, the U.K. and other countries — including in Cuba — May 30 to demand: End the U.S. embargo against Cuba! U.S. out of Guantánamo now! End…
Supporters of Hamas and some middle-class radicals have responded to the recent fighting between the reactionary Islamist group and the Israeli military by organizing protests under the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine must be free” — a…
