“Whether the Democrats or Republicans win control of the Senate or House this year, workers will lose,” said Paul Mailhot, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New York, speaking at a campaign event Oct. 31. “Capitalist politicians band together…
The third deadly train disaster in Spain in less than a year Oct. 28 left 69 people dead near Urda in Toledo province. The Spanish Railroad Engineers and Trainmen’s Union (SEMAF) held a one-day strike the next day, demanding the…
Working people in the U.S. face the brunt of a deep-going crisis of capitalism today — soaring prices, less jobs, assaults on immigrant workers and the spread of international conflicts and wars. Under these conditions, it’s no surprise that the…
BOSTON — Dayanis García Farinas, coordinator for international relations at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center in Havana, spoke at the First Baptist Church of Jamaica Plain here Oct. 26, part of her four-city U.S. tour. She gave an…
Moscow’s intensified, systematic bombardment of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure that cut off electricity, heat and water “with the intent of Russia’s authorities to inflict harm to the civilian population” amounts to war crimes, a three-person Independent International Commission of Inquiry on…
MONTREAL — On Oct. 19 a nonbinding referendum in Canada’s Alberta province posed 10 questions on the ballot. The one that received far and away the most attention in the big-business media asked if voters wanted a future binding referendum…
On the 70th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution, which broke out Oct. 23, 1956, there are valuable lessons from that struggle for working-class fighters. That powerful outpouring was a popular uprising led by workers who organized a fight to rid…
This Cuban documentary produced in 2006 tells the story of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine and Cuba’s exemplary internationalist medical program that treated more than 25,000 victims.
