Both Cuba and Florida suffered serious damage from Hurricane Ian. In Pinar del Río, Cuba’s hardest hit province, some 53,000 homes were damaged, more than 5,000 destroyed, and the tobacco processing industry — a major source of hard currency —…
Rising prices are wreaking havoc with the lives of working people and our families worldwide. Inflation reduces the value of our wages as we confront higher costs for food, fuel, housing and other essentials, and rising debts. Now we confront…
Statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Congress from New Jersey, Sept. 30. Kuniansky is a member of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union. Working people confront both deteriorating living standards caused by soaring prices…
This week’s selection from October Books of the Month is The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State by Frederick Engels, first published in 1884. Engels was the lifelong political collaborator of Karl Marx in founding the modern…
October 20, 1997 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Tens of thousands of workers and youth marched here Oct. 1 as part of a 24-hour general strike to protest the proposed sale of the Puerto Rico Telephone Co. One of the…
MANCHESTER, England — More than 160,000 workers, including rail, postal, dockworkers and others, held a one-day strike across the U.K. Oct. 1, protesting sharp price raises and attacks on job conditions. Railroad signalers, platform workers, conductors and drivers joined a…
QUEBEC CITY — Spirits were high at the union tent on the main road into the Port of Quebec City Sept. 26, when Felix Vincent Ardea, a Canadian National Railway train conductor and member of the Teamsters union, and this…
On April 26, 1986, an explosion blew apart the top of reactor No. 4 at the Soviet nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, in Ukraine, releasing huge amounts of radiation into the atmosphere. More than 2,000 square miles of Ukraine, Belarus…
Republican governors in Arizona, Florida and Texas have been sending busloads of migrants who’ve crossed the Mexican border to liberal northern “sanctuary” cities, saying authorities there should be glad to get them. Democratic mayors, like New York’s Eric Adams, and…
