Killing of Gaza protesters provokes debate in Israel

Vol. 82/No. 15 - April 16, 2018

Protest actions were held in Israel March 31 and April 1 against Israeli army attacks that killed at least 15 Palestinian demonstrators and wounded hundreds of Gaza Strip residents. They were marching on the border to challenge the Israeli blockade…


Join the protests — Build, fight for labor solidarity!

Vol. 82/No. 15 - April 16, 2018

The walkout by teachers in Oklahoma is part of a rising wave of school workers strikes and protests across the country that point the way forward for the entire labor movement. Inspired by the social movement union members built in…


Protests spread against poisoning of air in Russia

Vol. 82/No. 15 - April 16, 2018

“We can’t stop protesting until the landfill is shut down,” Volokolamsk resident Alexander Lvov told the Moscow Times. People in this town of 23,000, about 80 miles from Moscow, have been demanding a halt to the use of the landfill…


Teachers rise up, press fight for wages, dignity

Tens of thousands walk out, rally in Oklahoma, Kentucky
Vol. 82/No. 15 - April 16, 2018
Teachers and other school workers rally in Frankfort, Kentucky, April 2. Victory by school workers in West Virginia has inspired wave of protests and strikes by teachers across country.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Teachers and school workers rallied at the Capitol here April 2, part of an uprising around the country seeking to reverse years of declining wages and conditions. Tens of thousands walked off the job, shutting down schools…


Correction

Vol. 82/No. 15 - April 16, 2018

The caption to the picture with the article “Kurds: ‘Atrocities Don’t Kill Our Quest for Freedom’” in the April 9 issue incorrectly identified Muhammad Aziz as the man in the picture. Aziz is not in the picture.


Chinese rulers, NKorea push for talks with Washington

Vol. 82/No. 15 - April 16, 2018

After North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing March 26 — his first foreign trip since coming to power — Xi telephoned President Donald Trump. He told Trump that plans for a May…


SWP joins in teachers’ fight, introduces the Militant, books

Vol. 82/No. 15 - April 16, 2018

OKLAHOMA CITY — The Socialist Workers Party campaign to expand readership of the Militant and books on the communist program by party leaders takes place during a rising wave of school strikes and protests across the country. Thousands of teachers,…


Sacramento protest: ‘Prosecute cops who killed Stephon Clark!’

Vol. 82/No. 15 - April 16, 2018
March in Sacramento after funeral of Stephon Clark, who was shot and killed by cops March 18.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Hundreds packed into Bayside of South Sacramento Church here March 29 for the funeral of Stephon Clark, 22, an unarmed Black man gunned down by cops here March 18. So many people turned out to show solidarity…


Rail, public sector workers protest gov’t attacks in France

Vol. 82/No. 14 - April 9, 2018
Hundreds of thousands of rail and public workers rallied in Paris and around France March 22 against government attacks on unions and two-tier system proposed for new hires in rail.

PARIS — Hundreds of thousands of rail and other government workers took to the streets in 180 cities across France March 22. Close to 25,000 rail workers — almost one-quarter of the workforce at the state-run SNCF (French National Railway…


Solidarity builds for locked-out Quebec aluminum workers

Vol. 82/No. 14 - April 9, 2018

BÉCANCOUR, Quebec — “We will fight for our rights. Through the struggle we have the opportunity to meet other workers and solidify the fight,” Danny Pilotte, a foundry worker, one of over 1,000 locked-out ABI Bécancour aluminum workers, told Communist…