MINNEAPOLIS — Despite the government’s “drawdown” removing 700 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, 2,000 of them remain in Minnesota. They’re conducting raids and arrests of immigrant workers and increasingly of protesters who obstruct their operations. At the same time,…
FORT WORTH, Texas — On Jan. 21, the Dallas County Commissioners Court voted unanimously to exonerate Tommy Lee Walker. Walker, a 19-year-old Black man, was convicted by an all-white jury of the rape and murder of Venice Parker, a 31-year-old…
SAN FRANCISCO — After going on strike Feb 9, teachers here have set up picket lines at schools across the city and held giant rallies to press their demands. This is the first teachers strike in San Francisco in 47…
Merchants of the Grand Bazaar of Tehran have called for nationwide actions Feb. 17, 18 and 19 to commemorate the thousands massacred across Iran by the reactionary capitalist regime during the recent wave of protests against its rule. Families in…
MANCHESTER, England — “The Communist League stands in the front lines of battles by working people,” Hugo Wils, the CL’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton parliamentary by-election said. He was talking with seven workers, originally from Pakistan, at a…
Maricopa Superior Court Judge Greg Como struck down three state laws that restricted access to abortion in Arizona Feb. 6. The laws required women to provide a reason for seeking an abortion, barred abortion in cases of nonfatal genetic abnormalities,…
MONTREAL — Thousands joined rallies and demonstrations in eight cities across Quebec Feb. 7 protesting the provincial government’s abolition of its Quebec Experience Program (PEQ). Under the program thousands of workers from abroad were brought to work in Quebec, providing…
LOS ANGELES — Some 31,000 Kaiser Hospital nurses and other health care workers in California and Hawaii, organized by the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, have been on strike since Jan. 26. Over 3,000 pharmacy technicians,…
Growing numbers of workers are looking for the way to bring an end to today’s wars and prevent even more deadly conflicts. Workers’ desire to live in peace is founded on the fact the working class has no interest in…
Unions help build Minneapolis protests to unite working class MINNEAPOLIS — Across the country last week unionists, high school students and others marched to defend the rights of immigrants to live and work in the U.S. From Chester, New York,…
