MONTREAL — More than 50,000 working people took part in a large union federation-sponsored demonstration here Nov. 29, protesting a series of new laws either adopted or proposed by the Coalition for the Future of Quebec (CAQ) government of Premier…
December 11, 2000 HAVANA — During the Second World Conference of Friendship and Solidarity with Cuba, held here Nov. 10-14, Vilma Espín, president of the Cuban Federation of Women (FMC), led a discussion with more than 50 participants. “As women…
After a 101-day strike, some 3,200 members of International Association of Machinists District 837 are back on the job at Boeing’s military aircraft and munitions plants in the St. Louis area. Machinists there voted in favor of accepting the company’s…
MONTREAL — Quebec’s four main union federations and five other unions are organizing to bring thousands of unionists to a mass united rally in Montreal Nov. 29. They are protesting a whole series of laws either already adopted or proposed…
CHICAGO — Teamsters Local 705 members ended their strike at the Mauser Packaging Solutions subsidiary plant in the Little Village neighborhood here Nov. 21. Bosses had announced they were shuttering the plant that day. The union’s 168 members walked off…
In the midst of Washington’s push to reassert its military domination in Latin America and the Caribbean, voters in Ecuador delivered a resounding “No” vote on a government proposal to allow U.S. military bases there. In a Nov. 16 national…
One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November is Labor’s Giant Step — The First Twenty Years of the CIO: 1936-55 by Art Preis. He fought in labor battles in the 1930s, then became a staff writer for the…
The latest rounds of fighting in Gaza and Lebanon show that nothing has been resolved as a result of the U.S.-imposed ceasefires. Hamas and Hezbollah refuse to disarm and Washington is pressing Israel to hold off from taking decisive action…
Washington’s escalating immigration raids and deportations are a serious threat to working people and the unions today. They seek to divide the working class into two camps: workers born in the U.S. and others born abroad. The goal of the…
This November marked the 50th anniversary of the beginning of revolutionary Cuba’s internationalist mission known as Operation Carlota, in which 425,000 volunteers served for 16 years in Angola in support of that country’s defense of its newly won independence. Portugal…
