SAN FRANCISCO — Airline cabin cleaners picketed at the San Francisco International Airport Oct. 22 against the suspension of 14 workers by Unifi, the contractor that hires cleaners for United Airlines planes. The suspended workers, members of SEIU United Service…
BIRMINGHAM, England — Seven months into their strike at the council-run refuse depots here, hundreds of refuse workers, members of Unite the Union, are winning the support of temporary workers hired by agencies to fill their jobs. “A growing number…
WASHINGTON — As this issue of the Militant goes to press, there are late-breaking developments in Kilmar Abrego García’s case. Efforts to deport him to Liberia by Oct. 31 have been delayed. U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis in Maryland…
A coalition of the Democratic Party, liberal groups and the middle-class left mounted 2,600 “No Kings” actions across the U.S. Oct. 18. They say President Donald Trump acts like a “king,” to portray his administration as fundamentally worse than any…
As Ukrainian working people resist Moscow’s brutal war, the repressive regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin is unleashing ever greater repression to try to keep a lid on mounting signs of dissent at home. On Oct. 22 a court in…
MIAMI — The Socialist Workers Party’s candidates for public office from California to New York, from Minneapolis to Miami, especially those on the ballot, are taking advantage of media interviews and candidate debates to win as broad a hearing as…
Since Hamas’ murderous pogrom against Jews in Israel Oct. 7, 2023, and provocative Jew-hating mobilizations worldwide organized under the pretext of protesting Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza, attacks on Jews have spread. Rami Glickstein and his wife, Rivi Glickstein, were walking…
Tens of thousands of workers launched a general strike in Gabes, Tunisia, Oct. 21, bringing economic activity to a complete standstill in the city. “Everything is closed,” Saoussen Nouisser, a local representative of Tunisia’s main labor union, UGTT, told the…
HAVANA — A festival was held here Oct. 17-19 celebrating the 60th anniversary of Cuba’s two daily newspapers, Granma and Juventud Rebelde. Visitors to the event, called the Granma-Rebelde Festival, browsed publications on display at booths representing a range of…
Mamdani aims to suck workers back into the Democratic Party NEW YORK — Amid growing national and international attention focused on the 2025 New York City elections, there’s only one candidate for mayor offering a working-class road forward, that’s Paul…
