UN commission: End US colonial rule in Puerto Rico

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022

UNITED NATIONS — “U.S. laws dealing with Puerto Rico have one purpose — to perpetuate the colony,” said Richard López, speaking for the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. He was one of two dozen pro-independence petitioners at the annual hearing of…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 86/No. 25 - July 11, 2022

July 14, 1997 STOCKHOLM — The June European Union summit highlighted the competing interests and divisions among the imperialist governments in Europe. The heads of state gathered failed to reach an agreement on voting procedures that was supposed to pave…



South Korea truckers strike wins rate hikes tied to inflation

Vol. 86/No. 24 - July 4, 2022

After eight days on strike thousands of owner-operator truck drivers returned to work at major ports and container depots across South Korea June 15. Fighting to ensure their pay keeps up with skyrocketing fuel prices was at the heart of…


Ontario construction workers make gains as strikes continue

Vol. 86/No. 24 - July 4, 2022

Tens of thousands of Ontario construction workers in the housing and the industrial, commercial and institutional sectors have returned to work after winning significant wage increases through strike actions begun in May. Their goal has been to counter the galloping…


Workers need to unite to fight the scourge of soaring prices

Vol. 86/No. 24 - July 4, 2022

Skyrocketing prices continue to batter the lives of millions of workers and our families. In hopes of slowing inflation, the Federal Reserve — the U.S. government’s national bank — has begun a series of sharp increases in interest rates, a…


Back Ukraine independence! Moscow’s troops out now!

Solidarity of Ukraine, Russian toilers against Putin’s war
Vol. 86/No. 24 - July 4, 2022
Protest against Russian army-forced conscription of women’s husbands in Moscow-occupied “Donetsk People’s Republic” four months after they were sent to the front as cannon fodder.

The monthslong battle by Ukrainian toilers fighting to beat back Moscow’s bloody invasion and defend their national independence is now focused in the country’s eastern and southern regions. Moscow has massed its ground forces and is making costly gains in…


SWP launches renewal drive, will put party on Pa. ballot

Vol. 86/No. 24 - July 4, 2022
Chris Hoeppner, SWP candidate for Congress from Pennsylvania, right, with owner-operator Leroy Ford, left, at truck stop near Pittsburgh June 14. “I want to help” the campaign, said Ford.

“We need a change. What we are going through is not sustainable,” trucker Kenneth Kirkland told Chris Hoeppner, a railroad worker and Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress from Pennsylvania, at a truck stop in Bentleyville, south of Pittsburgh,…


Build solidarity with CN rail signal workers strike battle across Canada!

Vol. 86/No. 24 - July 4, 2022
June 20 picket line at Vancouver, British Columbia, rail yard at start of signal workers strike. IBEW members are fighting for wage increases, humane work schedules, safety.

MONTREAL — Some 750 signal and communications workers, members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, went on strike against the Canadian National Railway June 18 after negotiations broke down and the bosses demanded the union agree to submit unresolved…


Liberals assault on Trump, Supreme Court is threat to political rights

Vol. 86/No. 24 - July 4, 2022

The Democratic Party’s relentless drive to prevent former President Donald Trump from running again in 2024 stepped up a gear starting June 9 with hours of televised House Select Committee hearings probing the Jan. 6, 2021, incursion at the Capitol…