Download the PDF. Struggle from 1970 to now National Day of Mourning ALSO: Class clash at Mass & Cass Justice for Tamir Rice Hospital workers strike On the picket line Bus drivers take on Transdev Lessons of Buffalo mayoral vote COP26 cops out WWP Solidarity: Transgender Day of Remembrance Editorials: . . .
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Thomas Sankara In April 2021 a military court in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, finally indicted Blaise Compaore in the murder of revolutionary Marxist-Leninist and former Burkinabe president Thomas Sankara. Sankara established a revolutionary government in Burkina Faso in August 1983. In October 1987 Compaore oversaw a coup d’etat that resulted in . . .
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WW photo credit: Steve Kirschbaum Executive Board, USW Local 8751 Boston, Nov. 14 — Banging drums and chanting “No contract, no work,” hundreds of Boston school bus drivers from far-flung yards converged on their employer Transdev’s office during their Nov. 9 morning break. With a week to go until their . . .
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Two weeks of high-profile negotiations, against a background of climate catastrophes, ended Nov. 13 with little to show for the 26th “Conference of the Parties.” Proposals included that “countries agree to accelerate the phasing out of coal and subsidies for fossil fuels — a potential first acknowledgment of fossil fuels’ . . .
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Credit: Gloria Rubac Beaumont, Texas Nov. 13 — On May Day this year about 650 union workers, members of Steelworkers Local 13-243, showed up at the Exxon refinery here only to discover that this billion-dollar company had locked them out. Contract bargaining had come to a standoff, with Exxon demanding . . .
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