Hundreds of thousands marched in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 8, International Women’s Day, to demand the right of women to choose abortion. The march was organized by the National Campaign for the Right to Safe, Legal and Free Abortion, a…
Following the example of school workers in West Virginia, over a 1,000 teachers, retirees, other public workers and their supporters crowded the state Capitol in Frankfort, Kentucky, March 12, protesting a bill brought before the state Senate that would slash…
NEW YORK — “Thomas Sankara spoke for the oppressed and exploited, and against the imperialist world order, which he showed can be fought and explained must be replaced,” Socialist Workers Party speaker Peter Thierjung told some 40 participants at a…
SEATTLE — Debate continues in Washington state over who is responsible for the derailment of Amtrak’s maiden voyage over new track between Tacoma and Portland, Oregon, that led to the death of three people and injured dozens Dec. 18. While…
“I am sending $780 of ‘blood money’ to the Socialist Workers Party from a retroactive pay raise we got under the recently signed new rail contract at Norfolk Southern,” Linda Armstrong wrote March 2. Bosses use bonuses and other payouts…
The May Day International Brigade to Cuba presents working people and youth with a unique opportunity to learn about the Cuban Revolution firsthand and the lessons it provides for advancing struggles by workers and farmers against capitalist rule worldwide. The…
SAN FRANCISCO — Opponents of solitary confinement rallied at the federal courthouse here Feb. 23 to support legal moves demanding California prison authorities comply with a landmark court settlement won by prisoners in 2015 that limits use of the brutal…
Decadeslong conflicts between the capitalist rulers of Iran and Israel have sharpened as Tehran expands its military presence in Syria. At home the Iranian rulers confront growing working-class opposition to their wars abroad, and also to their enforcement of second-class…
On the evening of Feb. 22, the state of Alabama spent two and a half hours in a grisly attempt to execute 61-year-old Doyle Lee Hamm, who is dying of cancer and has been on death row for the past…
Cuban and U.S. firefighters worked closely together in February to put out a fire that raged on the perimeter of the U.S. military base in Guantánamo, Cuba. “The illegally occupied territory of Guantánamo constitutes an open wound to Cuban sovereignty,…
