The following statement was released March 24 by John Staggs, Socialist Workers Party candidate for City Council At-Large in Philadelphia. Staggs grew up on a family farm in Illinois. Working farmers are victims of conditions over which they have no…
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Some 5,000 teachers and their supporters rallied at the state Capitol here March 11 demanding more funding for public schools, expanded prekindergarten programs and increased teachers’ pay. Organized by the Maryland State Education Association, the action brought…
NEW YORK — A worker who spoke out against poor conditions at the Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island is challenging his firing by the company. The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union submitted a complaint with the National Labor…
NEW YORK — Hundreds of nurses, other unionists and supporters rallied outside Mount Sinai Hospital March 18 as the nurses’ union told the main private hospitals here that its members could go on strike April 2 if a contract agreement…
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Workers from hotels in the Reykjavik capital area and nearby municipalities marched down Laugavegur Street here March 8, International Women’s Day. The action was part of a one-day strike, the first of others to come, Anna Marta…
Thousands of peasants and rural workers in Venezuela have been fighting for land and the means to till it since 2001 when then President Hugo Chávez adopted a Law on Land and Agricultural Development that allowed the state to expropriate…
More information continues to come to light making it crystal clear that the crashes of two Boeing 737 Max 8 planes in Indonesia and Ethiopia were not accidents. They were the direct result of cold-blooded decisions by Boeing bosses to…
NEW YORK — The city government here announced March 20 that it was dropping its appeal of a civil court decision that found two New York cops liable for the killing of Mohamed Bah, who was emotionally ill, in Harlem…
“We think the problems that working people face in Troy are really similar across the country and the world,” Samantha Hamlin, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor, told a well-covered press conference March 20 at Troy City Hall in upstate…
April 4, 1994 PARIS — Hundreds of thousands of students and trade unionists have taken to the streets across the country in recent weeks to protest a plan to create a separate, subminimum wage for young people. The French ruling…
