ST. PAUL, Minn. — Starbucks Workers United union members and their supporters held a “practice picket” Dec. 7 outside a Starbucks store here demanding bosses finally sign a contract. Pickets shouted, “No contract, no coffee” and “What’s disgusting? Union busting,”…
SYDNEY — After 17 days on strike, Woolworths warehouse workers, members of the United Workers Union, won a victory, pushing back the company’s attempt to impose new speedup rules. More than 1,500 workers at three warehouses in Victoria and one…
The Algerian government has imprisoned prominent French Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal on charges of violating national security. The 75-year-old writer is an outspoken critic of reactionary Islamism, authoritarianism, and government attacks on freedom of expression. He was disappeared for a…
Tens of thousands of demonstrators continue to protest across Georgia after the pro-Moscow Georgian Dream government announced plans Nov. 28 to postpone talks on joining the European Union until at least 2028. Undeterred by brutal attacks from security forces, protesters…
Intensified national rivalries and conflicts spreading around the world overshadowed the 29th United Nations climate conference, COP29, held in Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 11-24. The annual summit — where prominent capitalist figures burnish their green credentials — was marked by the…
December 20, 1999 The struggle to get the U.S. Navy out of the island of Vieques has given a powerful boost to the fight to end Puerto Rico’s colonial subjugation to Washington — the root of the problem. The massive…
BOSTON — Striking teachers in three North Shore cities are back at work, ending two and half weeks of walkouts involving over 1,400 workers. Substantial gains were won in pay and parental leave by the three unions. To do so,…
Underlying the turmoil that brought down the French government Dec. 4 was its inability to strengthen the position of the country’s capitalist ruling families in the face of an economic downturn across Europe that is fueling sharper competition with their…
Throughout the U.S., working people are being hit by outrageous rents that eat up disproportionate amounts of families’ household income. Residential rents have increased at least 20% nationwide since 2020, with more than half of working people paying over 30%…
