BRACKENRIDGE, Pa. — “Don’t try to strong-arm the steelworkers,” said Todd Barbiaux, president of United Steelworkers Local 1196. He was responding to demands by bosses at Allegheny Technologies Inc. that the union accepts the company’s latest offer by 5 p.m.,…
U.S. bosses are hiring — from steel mills to construction sites to the restaurant business — as COVID-19 vaccinations spread, government lockouts are reduced and the ruling capitalist families see increased opportunities to profit. As production increases, and competition between…
CHAMBLY, Quebec — Some 73,000 primary and secondary school teachers across Quebec, who have been without a contract for over a year, are planning to walk out for the second time in two weeks to increase the pressure on Premier…
SCOTTSVILLE, Texas — “Strike until it’s right!” members of United Auto Workers Local 3057 chant on the picket line in front of the gate of Prysmian Group in East Texas. Over 200 UAW members went on strike March 26 after…
Opponents of Washington’s over 60-year economic war against Cuba joined car caravans and rallies in at least 20 U.S. cities, and in Canada, the U.K. and other countries April 25. They demanded: End the U.S. embargo against Cuba! U.S. out…
May 13, 1996 HAVANA — More than one million workers, students, members of Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces, and others marched here on May Day. Actions took place in every provincial capital and other cities. Pedro Ross, general secretary of the…
The New York Times published what it called an “Overlooked obituary” of Kitty Cone March 26. These are obits of individuals who the Times did not mention at the time of their passing. Kitty Cone died in 2015. Cone was…
CHICAGO — “Cuba and the Coming American Revolution: The 60th Anniversary of Two Historic Victories of the Cuban Revolution and Their Significance for Building a Revolutionary Party in the United States — Then and Now” was the featured talk at…
WHITEHAVEN, England — “People from outside the area say Sellafield is unsafe and coal is bad for the environment, but it’s an issue of jobs,” Patrick Stamper, a former scaffolder at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site, told Peter Clifford, the…
WASHINGTON — The current push for statehood for the District of Columbia, purportedly in the name of increasing its residents’ representation and fighting racism, is a fraud. It is aimed at gaining seats in the Senate for one of the…
