LOS ANGELES — Over 40,000 nurses and other health care workers at Kaiser Permanente hospitals went on strike for five days starting Oct. 14. “Kaiser pushed us to the end,” Tina Chin, a physician assistant in neurosurgery, told the Militant…
RICHMOND, Calif. — Workers picketed outside the Safeway bread plant here Oct. 5, protesting company abuse and refusal to grant union demands. The workers, members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 125, have been working under an…
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. — Two hundred Frontier customer call center workers, members of Communications Workers of America Local 9588, rallied here Sept. 28 to highlight their fight for better wages, affordable health care and safety on the job. “We need…
MONTREAL — Chris Barber and Tamara Lich, who were spokespeople for the February 2022 protest in Ottawa by hundreds of truckers and others, were sentenced to 18 and 12 months respectively Oct. 7. Dozens of supporters attended the hearing. Both…
MANCHESTER, England — On Oct. 8, their third day of strike action, rail workers here were joined by Danny Taylor, a leader of the six-month-long Unite union refuse workers strike in Birmingham, a delegation from the Fire Brigade Union and…
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — “These books are necessary for a new awakening,” Frankely Polanco, a building painter, said while he was looking over the Pathfinder Press stand at the 27th Santo Domingo International Book Fair Oct. 1. He was…
WASHINGTON — Some 100 members of the National Black Lung Association — coal miners, wives, widows and other family members and friends — rallied here Oct. 14, along with members of the United Mine Workers of America. They’re demanding the…
MINNEAPOLIS — “The Socialist Workers Party calls on all working people and our unions to protest the Jew-hating attack on Temple Israel in Minneapolis,” Kevin Dwire, the SWP candidate for mayor, and Edwin Fruit, the party’s candidate for Minneapolis City…
Trump says that Hamas thugs patrolling streets of Gaza is OK The release of the 20 remaining living hostages by Hamas — starved, tortured and brutalized for 738 days after the Jew-hating group kidnapped them during the Oct. 7, 2023,…
Tens of thousands of protesters filled the streets of Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital, Oct. 4 after the Georgian Dream government claimed victory in municipal elections held after months of attacks on almost daily demonstrations, raids on independent media and the jailing…
