May 9, 1994 NORTHAM, South Africa — “Our strike is 100 percent effective, our members are determined to make the company meet our most important demands,” stated Joseph Moloke, branch chairman of the National Union of Mineworkers at Gold Fields…
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region, Iraq — The 14th Erbil International Book Fair, held here April 3-13, reaffirmed the openings for political debate and cultural activity in Kurdistan, Iraq and beyond. “Since 2003, we’ve had the opportunity to live more like other…
Socialist Workers Party candidates are campaigning all across the country, taking their working-class program to cities, towns and country lanes. They find wide-ranging discussion among working people about what can be done to defend workers and farmers from the impact…
The White House April 17 announced new sanctions in Washington’s decadeslong economic war against the Cuban people and their socialist revolution. The government imposed Title III of the reactionary 1996 anti-Cuba Helms-Burton Law, which allows U.S. citizens to sue in…
SEATTLE — After a public outcry, the Washington state Department of Corrections reversed severe restrictions they had adopted that blocked prisoners from receiving almost all used books. The ban, quietly posted on the department’s website, said that effective March 25…
“They deported a friend of mine two days ago. ICE has been stepping up its activities here,” laborer Ryan Null told Socialist Workers Party member Deborah Liatos when she knocked on his door in Valley Acres, a small town in…
Massive crowds continue to sit in and protest at the presidential palace in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, determined to eradicate all remnants of military rule after the army brass ousted and arrested President Omar al-Bashir. The powerful breadth of the mobilizations…
The Texas state legislative Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence Committee held unprecedented public hearings April 8-9 on a proposed bill to authorize criminal prosecution of all women who have an abortion and of the doctors who perform them. All abortions would…
BOSTON — Some 31,000 workers on strike at over 240 Stop & Shop grocery stores in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island are calling on working people to support their fight. The unionists, members of five United Food and Commercial Workers…
