While Hamas is using the U.S.-imposed ceasefire to shore up its brutal dictatorship in Gaza, the White House is keeping up pressure on Israel, demanding it refrain from any major attack on the Tehran-backed group whose founding covenant calls for…
FORT WORTH, Texas — On the heels of the victory of the 40-day strike by members of UNITE HERE Local 23 at the Hilton hotel in Houston, some 100 food service workers at the nearby George R. Brown Convention Center…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — United Parcel Service Flight 2976 crashed almost immediately after takeoff at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport Nov. 4, killing at least 14 people, mostly area workers, injuring many more and destroying or damaging workplaces in the…
MONTREAL — On Oct. 30, one day after 51,000 striking Alberta teachers returned to work under a government strikebreaking order, thousands of high school students walked out of classes in over 70 schools throughout the province to support the teachers.…
At the end of his term as president, Joseph Biden commuted the death sentences hanging over 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row. Donald Trump’s Justice Department transferred eight of the 37 to a facility notorious for its…
As the crisis of capitalism deepens and sharpening trade conflicts and disputes over markets and resources grow, ruling imperialist governments are looking to build their military forces, search for allies and prepare for wider wars. What can working people do…
SAN FRANCISCO — Several dozen people rallied outside the Phillip Burton Federal Building here Oct. 30 before a court hearing on the status of maintenance worker Miguel Lopez from Livermore. Lopez was deported to Mexico June 7 just hours before…
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…
