MONTREAL — The Canadian government announced Sept. 26 it was further slashing door-to-door mail delivery and closing many of the country’s rural post offices to save money in an “existential” crisis. “In response to the Government’s attack on our postal…
ATLANTA — More than 400 Teamsters Local 25 members at waste-hauler Republic Services in the Boston area ended their hard-fought strike Sept. 19, ratifying a new contract by 92%. The union said the workers won a 46% wage increase over…
WASHINGTON — Supporters of Kilmar Abrego García and of the rights of immigrants in the U.S. will rally in Greenbelt, Maryland, before a U.S. District Court hearing on his fight for asylum Oct. 6. Abrego García, his family and supporters…
After working people in Cuba overthrew the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and took power, they transformed the country into a sports powerhouse. It leads every nation in the Americas, with the exception of the U.S., in gold…
Working-class families are facing skyrocketing utility bills all across the country as energy monopolies like Con Edison, backed by accommodating government authorities responsible for “regulating” them, are reaping hefty profits. Electricity prices in August surged 31% higher than four years…
MANILA, Philippines — “Women are objectified and commodified. It is a culture that capitalists profit from,” said Virginia Suarez, a lawyer who specializes in women’s and workers’ rights. “When I read this book, I was enriched. Women have to break…
MONTREAL — More than 1,000 people marched in a protest Sept. 27 in Longueuil, just south of Montreal, calling for “Justice for Nooran.” Nooran Rezayi, a 15-year-old boy whose family are Afghan immigrants, was shot and killed by a cop…
BIRMINGHAM, England — Hundreds of striking refuse workers, members of Unite the Union, and other trade unionists marched through the city center and rallied here Sept. 20. The demonstration marked the six-month anniversary of the start of their strike against…
“One of the Holocaust’s worst single atrocities — the murder of 33,771 Jews over two days in September 1941, the start of the ‘Holocaust by Bullets,’” said a press release issued by the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center at simultaneous…
“Our enemy is right here, they lie when they say it’s in America,” “Enough warmongering, our tables are empty,” and “No to inflation and high prices, no to war and destruction” were some of the slogans retirees chanted in Kermanshah…
