U.S. and Chinese officials met in Beijing Jan. 7-9 for negotiations over the trade dispute between the rulers of the world’s first and second largest economies. These are the first announced talks since President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi…
Supporters of the campaign of Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Dallas mayor, are planning two weeks of intensive campaigning Jan 12-26. “We’re going to go all over Texas,” George Chalmers, who is organizing the campaigning, said by phone…
LONDON — Yellow vest protesters in France have responded to government arrests, attacks and slanders by taking to the streets. Some 50,000 marched throughout France Jan. 5, according to the interior ministry — almost twice as many as the Saturday…
NEW YORK — Peter Thierjung, chairperson of the New York Socialist Workers Party, began the short program at a spirited celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution here Jan. 5 by quoting Raúl Castro, first secretary of the…
The prison newspaper train I was reading your newspaper that another inmate had. He got transferred and I would like to keep reading it. I especially enjoy reading of the struggling working class, the Cuban Revolution and international world affairs.…
January 24, 1994 SEATTLE — A head-on collision between Burlington Northern and Union Pacific freight trains Nov. 11 killed five workers near Kelso, Washington. The northbound UP train was preparing to switch over to a parallel main track to allow…
For the last two years, the Chinese rulers have systematically organized the indefinite detention of over a million Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim ethnic minority who live mainly in Xinjiang, a huge region of northwest China bordering Central Asia, in what…
I believe that the article in the Jan, 7, 2019, issue of the Militant titled “Walmart Worker Hits Bosses’ Abuses Over Intercom” did not belong in the On the Picket Line column. The article describes how a worker used the…
Below is the letter from Jack Barnes, National Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, read to the celebration by Norton Sandler. December 30, 2018 To friends, family, and comrades gathered in Los Angeles to celebrate the life of Nan Bailey:…
Leaders of Communist Leagues in four countries — sister parties of the Socialist Workers Party in the U.S. — sent messages to the celebration of Nan Bailey’s political life. Below are excerpts from those messages, as well as from several…
