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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
In a victory for South Carolina death row prisoners and opponents of the death penalty, Richmond County Court Judge Joselyn Newman issued an injunction Sept. 6 that bars the state from executing inmates by firing squad or the electric chair.…
The determination of the Ukrainian people to prevent Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime from conquering their country was decisive in a series of battlefield victories won earlier this month in Kharkiv province. Putin’s response is to call up hundreds of…
Protests by tens of thousands of people over the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, have spread to over 80 cities across Iran and to every province, as well as into the Kurdish region of Iraq that borders…
