MONTREAL — “Another Lac-Mégantic can happen at any moment anywhere in the country,” Christopher Monette, Teamsters Canada director of public affairs, told the Montreal daily Le Devoir for its July 6 edition. July 6 was the 10th anniversary of the…
Contract oil workers in Iran who made gains in a strike at over 100 worksites in April and May say they are now in a better position to prepare for future labor battles. Led by the Organizing Council of Oil…
From plummeting math and reading test scores for teenage students, to the government’s plan to slash funds for child care, to rising health care costs alongside hospital closings — over 175 in rural areas over the last 15 years —…
In an effort to block a June 4 commemoration of those killed in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989, Hong Kong’s Victoria Park was filled with over 200 booths that weekend, part of a “Hometown Market Carnival.” That event was organized…
For the 37th week in a row thousands took to the streets of Zahedan in the Baluchistan region of Iran June 16, above, to protest repression at the hands of the bourgeois clerical government, despite military helicopters flying overhead prior…
More than a year after their last contract ran out, nearly 200 members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 390G went out on strike at International Flavors and Fragrances in Memphis, Tennessee, June 4. The workers produce…
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — At the street fair going on here, Nancy Felger, a retired health care worker and former shop steward of her Service Employees International Union local, told Socialist Workers Party member Candace Wagner that she heard that…
Since the beginning of May there have been three fires at refineries and chemical plants near Houston, with one worker dead and over a dozen injured. Like the disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, these dangers are a product of the…
The Crimean Tatar people have fought for centuries to defend their national rights as a people, since they were conquered and subjugated by Czarina Catherine II in 1783. May 18 marked the 79th anniversary of the forced deportation of Crimean…
As working people struggle to try and make ends meet, U.S. banks reported all-time record profits of $80 billion in the first quarter, up 33% from a year earlier. Over half of these profits went into the coffers of the…
