The National Labor Relations Board ruled Nov. 29 that a new union election will take place at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. The decision noted election violations by the company in last spring’s vote.
PHILADELPHIA — John Dougherty, longtime head of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98 here, resigned the day after he was convicted of “honest services wire fraud” in U.S. District Court Nov. 15. Dougherty, known as “Johnny Doc,” also…
For over five years all wings of the Democratic Party, the FBI, and much of the media have campaigned relentlessly to bring down Donald Trump. One of their central claims, written up in a dossier by former British spy…
SYDNEY — Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Nov. 25 that he was sending Australian imperialist police and military to “provide security and stability” by suppressing anti-government demonstrations in the Solomon Islands, some 1,000 miles northeast in the South Pacific. For…
Tens of thousands of farmers and other working people filled the dried riverbed and banks of the Zayanderud River in Isfahan, in central Iran, Nov. 19, culminating over a week of protests demanding the government take steps to relieve a…
A year of massive protests by working farmers in India has forced Prime Minister Narendra Modi to announce Nov. 19 he had decided to withdraw laws that threaten their livelihoods. The measures would have removed state-guaranteed minimums for staple grain…
Below is an excerpt from a talk by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, titled “Malcolm X: Revolutionary Leader of the Working Class.” It was given at a March 28, 1987, meeting in Atlanta, and is available…
As we go to press, the jury in the trial of three men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery, an African American jogger, near Brunswick, Georgia, returned its verdict Nov. 24. Travis McMichael was found guilty on all nine counts, including…
WASHINGTON — “No contract, no coal” chanted some 150 United Mine Workers of America members and their supporters at a rally here Nov. 18 in support of striking miners locked in a bitter strike battle against Warrior Met mine bosses…
Supporters of Oklahoma death row prisoner Julius Darius Jones cheered as Gov. Kevin Stitt canceled Jones’ execution just four hours before it was due at the state prison in McAlester Nov. 18. Stitt commuted Jones’ death sentence to life without…
