SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — For decades the U.S. government claimed that Puerto Rico was a “showcase for democracy” and a demonstration of the superiority of capitalist development. Today, almost every citizen of the “island of enchantment” knows the truth…
“Defending and extending the freedoms protected by the US Constitution is at the center of the class struggle,” the Socialist Workers Party said in its political resolution adopted in 2022. “Workers and farmers must organize and act to prevent the…
SYDNEY — Chanting “What’s outrageous? Airport wages!” over 100 Transport Workers Union members rallied at the Qantas airline domestic terminal here Sept. 24. The action was part of a one-day strike by some 500 Qantas freight workers at Sydney, Adelaide,…
MONTREAL — After six months on the picket line warehouse workers at the Metro food chain in the Montreal area are returning to work. On Sept. 24, 450 out of the 550 who were on strike voted by 77% to…
SEATTLE — Informational pickets by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union are being organized regularly at several Puget Sound ports. They’re distributing leaflets explaining that American Cruise Lines is not using union labor to dock, load and unload their vessels…
NEWARK, Calif. — Going into their seventh week on strike, 120 Teamsters are maintaining their picket lines at the Cargill sea salt plant here fighting for higher wages and a reduction of the huge sums they pay for health insurance.…
MINNEAPOLIS — Workers at three large condominium buildings here, members of Service Employees International Union Local 26, have been fighting to win a contract for over a year. To mark this, the union organized a rally and picnic Sept. 12.…
LINCOLN, Neb. — The Militant published an article Aug. 17 on the escalation in deaths and injuries of rail workers caused by the bosses’ stepped-up push for profits that has made working conditions even more dangerous. Two more rail workers…
LONDON — “Building strong unions and extending solidarity in labor battles is key,” Hanna Tesfay told Jonathan Silberman, the Communist League candidate in the Holborn and St. Pancras parliamentary by-election here, as they discussed a road forward for working people…
SAN FRANCISCO — Members of UNITE HERE Local 2 are fighting on several fronts in the San Francisco Bay Area. More than two dozen members of the union and their supporters leafleted around Ghirardelli Square here Sept. 16 to win…
