DETROIT — “Housekeeping is on the streets! Dirty beds, dirty sheets!” was the chant by strikers outside Hollywood Casino’s hotel in Detroit’s Greektown Nov. 15 when Militant correspondents from Cincinnati joined in. Some 3,700 workers, members of five unions, struck…
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Members and supporters of the Sugarcane Workers Union (UTC) held a conference here Nov. 6-11 to discuss and win support for their fight for retirement pensions. Dozens of Haitian and Dominican sugarcane workers, women as…
COMMERCE, Calif. — Six hundred warehouse workers at Smart & Final grocery chain in the distribution center here and in Riverside went on strike Nov. 1. After Teamsters Local 630 overwhelmingly won union elections there last spring, the company announced…
LOS ANGELES — “Free the hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza” was the demand of some 400 students and others who joined a rally and march at the University of California at Los Angeles campus here Nov. 7. Tables…
Nine years after the 2014 kidnapping and disappearance of 43 protesting students from Ayotzinapa by powerful drug cartels acting in collusion with the Mexican military and police, their relatives and supporters continue to protest and demand answers from the government…
LOS ANGELES — Thousands of strikers from 50 area hotels rallied and marched here Oct. 25 to back up demands for higher wages and to protest hotel bosses’ attempts to pit recently hired immigrants against the striking workers. UNITE HERE…
One of the October Books of the Month is the Spanish edition of Lenin’s Final Fight: Speeches and Writings 1922-23. It describes the last political battle by V.I. Lenin, the central leader of the Bolshevik-led 1917 socialist revolution in Russia.…
BRADLEY, Ill. — More than 700 members of International Chemical Workers Union Council Local 498C went on strike here against CSL Behring Sept. 27. The multinational company produces medication for those with immune deficiencies and bleeding disorders, such as hemophilia.…
WASHINGTON — Two Molotov cocktails were thrown at the Cuban Embassy here Sept. 24, hitting the front wall. There were no injuries to embassy personnel. The terrorist attack came on the heels of Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel’s trip to New…
NEW YORK — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel spoke at the United Nations and a wide range of meetings during a week-long visit here starting Sept. 17. He called for ending the U.S. economic war on Cuba and for Cuba’s removal…
