LOS ANGELES — Some 1,800 nurses at the University of Southern California’s Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center and Hospital, members of the California Nurses Association, staged a one-day strike Oct. 30 to demand a new contract. “When USC squeezes…
LONDON — Dozens of unionists and others joined an Oct. 15 protest organized by the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers union outside Parliament here in defense of 200 workers on the London Underground threatened with deportation. In July the Labour…
Hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews protested in Tel Aviv Oct. 30 against moves to draft them into the Israel Defense Forces. Since Israel’s Supreme Court ruled last year that the longstanding exemption from service was illegal, over 870 Haredi…
Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, announced Nov. 3 it has now recovered the names of 5 million of the estimated 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust. It has taken 37 years to…
With dozens of warships and planes, and thousands of U.S. troops deployed to Puerto Rico, in the Caribbean and the Pacific coast, the Trump administration is beating the war drums threatening military action to topple the Nicolás Maduro government in…
EDMONTON, Alberta — On Oct. 28 the United Conservative Party provincial government here voted to order 51,000 Alberta teachers, members of the Alberta Teachers’ Association on strike since Oct. 6, back to work. It ordered classes to resume the next…
Join the Militant in fighting to reverse the impoundment of two issues of the paper — no. 28, impounded in September, and no. 36, a month later — by the Missouri Department of Corrections. No substantive reason is given for…
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly Oct. 29 adopted a resolution by an overwhelming margin calling on Washington to end its more than six-decade-long economic war against Cuba. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez reported that “over the past weeks…
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…
