Moscow’s invading forces captured Lysychansk, the last city in Luhansk province held by Ukrainian forces, July 3, after weeks of grinding but costly battles. The Russian forces used their wide edge in artillery and missiles to carry out systematic and…
Miners forced on strike for over a year at Warrior Met Coal in Alabama, and other workers across North America, are standing up to the employers’ assault on our wages, and fighting for schedules that allow for a family life…
Socialist Workers Party members are discussing the roots of the capitalist crises working people face today and what we can do together to defend ourselves. As they present the party’s program widely among workers and farmers they’re getting a good…
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade has reopened a much-needed debate over the road forward to advance the fight for women’s equality. It’s well worth discussing why that ruling was made in 1973, and its lessons for…
MONTREAL — After a lively two-week strike, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers officials decided July 5 to send the fight by some 750 Canadian National Railway signal and communications workers for higher wages and important changes in scheduling to binding…
LONDON – Commemorations and protests across this city marked the fifth anniversary of the deadly Grenfell Tower fire of June 14, 2017. Seventy-two people were killed in that blaze and 70 others injured, in a building wrapped in highly flammable…
The authoritarian government of Uzbekistan in Central Asia — an “ally and important partner” of Moscow — was forced to back off efforts to strip autonomous status from Karakalpakstan after mass protests broke out there July 1-2. The region has…
Indigenous groups in Ecuador announced June 30 gains made after two-and-a-half weeks of daily protests and highway blockades, fighting for measures to protect workers and farmers from the ravages of inflation and other effects of today’s capitalist economic and social…
Four teachers’ unions in Ghana, West Africa, went on strike July 4 after the government refused to pay teachers and nonteaching staff a cost-of-living allowance of at least 20% of their wages. Annual inflation in the country is now 27.6%.…
Sixty-one years after African anti-imperialist independence fighter Patrice Lumumba was assassinated, a gold-crowned tooth, the only part of his body that exists, was buried in a state funeral in the Democratic Republic of the Congo June 30. The date marked…
