In the last two days of July, some 72,000 mostly young people living in Morocco crossed the land border into the adjacent Spanish enclave of Ceuta, with 75 immigrants dying. Many attempted a 3-mile swim around the border breakwater to…
CENTER CITY, Minn. — Members of the Minnesota Nurses Association secured their first contract at the Hazelden Betty Ford Rehab clinic here, after over a year of negotiations and a two-week strike that ended July 30. “Great news! We have…
MONTREAL — Members of the Communist League here and the Socialist Workers Party in the U.S. recently visited the picket lines of 550 striking Metro supermarket warehouse workers in Laval, just north of Montreal, and the 105 locked-out Siemens Electric…
Locked-out members of Teamsters Local 455 in Fort Morgan, Colorado, rejected the latest contract offer from Cargill bosses Aug. 3. The tentative contract had been reached July 28. Teamsters Local 455 Business Agent Chris Suazo told the press, “The membership…
Protest slanders, subpoenas on supporters of Cuba In 1959, led by Fidel Castro, Cuba’s workers and peasants made a thoroughgoing social revolution and have defended it arms-in-hand for 67 years. They have inspired workers and oppressed peoples worldwide to seek…
NEW YORK — “The U.S. rulers and their counterparts across the globe in their sharpening competition for markets, resources and cheap labor, answer by implementing measures to increase the exploitation of working people worldwide,” Paul Mailhot, Socialist Workers Party candidate…
MIAMI — July 18 marked the 32nd anniversary of the 1994 Tehran-backed Hezbollah bombing of the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that killed 85 people and wounded over 300. It was commemorated in Buenos Aires July 17 and…
President Donald Trump cancelled an attack on Iran set for Aug. 3, then immediately threatened to “decapitate” its rulers, hitting Iran harder than any strike “since World War II,” if Tehran does not give in to U.S. demands. At the…
LINCOLN, Neb. — On July 9 Norfolk Southern conductor Scott Shoemaker, a 67-year-old experienced rail worker only weeks from retirement working out of Toledo, Ohio, was struck and killed while inspecting a passing train in East Chicago, Indiana. That 110-car…
The struggles Robert F. Williams led “to desegregate public facilities in the Jim Crow South, and to organize self-defense in the Black community against Ku Klux Klan night riders, made Monroe, North Carolina, in those years an emblem of resistance…
