Solidarity
Lessons from the time 250,000 workers shut down Canada’s largest city
October 25, 2021October 25, 1996. As I made my way through Toronto’s east end, it was hard to not get excited by the streets whose eerie silence was notable. There were no buses, no delivery vans, no garbage...
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Meeting of Cuban and Mexican presidents displays solidarity
September 22, 2021Cuba’s friendship with Mexico hardly matches the importance of its alliance with the Soviet bloc, but there could be material benefits for both if the two nations become closer.
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Striking cookie workers refuse to crumble
September 14, 2021Seven days a week, 16 hours a day: “They’d rather work us to death than pay the benefits for more employees,” says April Flowers-Lewis.
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Cuban doctors and nurses stationed in Haiti jump into action following earthquake
August 24, 2021Over 250 Cuban health professionals living among the Haitian people immediately started providing care, even after just becoming homeless themselves.
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The time Rich Trumka brought 1,500 miners to Greenwich, Conn.
August 24, 2021When AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka passed away recently, it brought back memories of our first encounter in Connecticut in 1989.
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