Statement by Ilona Gersh, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Chicago, Dec. 28. Recent experiences of millions of working people have driven home the fact that the key division in U.S. politics is not the conflicts between Democrats and…
Touted by Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer as good for “parents, veterans, nurses, workers” and for “vital services,” a sweeping $1.66 trillion “omnibus” spending package passed the Senate with bipartisan support Dec. 22 and the House the next day. Under…
CHICAGO — Even though the country’s 115,000 rail workers have been saddled with a government-imposed contract that unions representing a majority of the workers had voted down, they continue to seek to use their unions to fight for livable schedules,…
Working people in Ukraine continue to lead the defense of their homeland from deadly bombardment and war moves carried out by the forces of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime. They’ve pushed Moscow’s invaders back from over half the territory Russian…
In the face of more than 100 days of protests across the country by working people and youth, the capitalist government of Iran is suffering from deepening factional divisions over how best to proceed. The outpouring of opposition to the…
FORT WORTH, Texas — Three years after he shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson in her own home, police officer Aaron Dean was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 11 years, 10 months and 12 days in prison. He will have…
PHILADELPHIA — Some 1,400 people, mostly from universities in the United States, Canada and some African countries, attended the African Studies Association conference here Nov. 17-19. They discussed the social and political crises produced by imperialist exploitation of the continent’s…
COVID-19 cases are on the rise in the U.S. and worldwide. Close to 3,000 people died across the country in the third week of December, nearly 90% of them over 65 years old. Hospitalizations have increased 30% over the last…
To mark the anniversary of the Jan. 1, 1959, popular triumph in Cuba, the first of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for January is Fidel Castro: Nothing Can Stop the Course of History. It is a wide-ranging interview by Jeffrey…
NEW YORK — “We’re fighting for higher wages and union security,” Laura Harshberger, a senior production editor and chair of the bargaining unit at HarperCollins, told the Militant. Some 200 workers — hourly employees in editorial, sales, publicity, design, legal…
