Public anger exploded in Sri Lanka May 9 after several hundred supporters of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, many armed with iron bars, attacked peaceful protesters camped out in Colombo, the country’s capital. Police did little to stop the attack that…
FAIRFIELD, Texas — Alyson Kennedy, SWP candidate for governor of Texas, party member Dennis Richter and the author of this article met Nathaniel Turner on a recent campaign trip here. We were eating lunch in a local diner where he…
For the last two years, car caravans and protests calling for an end to the U.S. economic war on Cuba have taken place on the last Sunday of every month across the United States and around the world. For more…
Maurice Bishop Speaks: The Grenada Revolution and Its Overthrow 1979-83 is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. Inspired by the Cuban Revolution, Bishop mobilized working people on this small Caribbean island, in their majority Black and English-speaking,…
Ukrainian prosecutors rushed to put 21-year-old Russian Sgt. Vadim Shysimarin on trial May 13, charging him with having committed “war crimes.” This is the first of what authorities there say will be hundreds of such prosecutions. If convicted Shysimarin faces…
Workers and their unions in Ukraine are joining in the fight to defeat Moscow’s invasion of their country, while standing up to assaults on jobs, wages and working conditions by bosses who are backed by the government of President Volodymyr…
Russian President Vladimir Putin claims Moscow had to invade Ukraine to “denazify” the country. He propagates through his rigidly government-controlled media the charge that “neo-Nazis” and “far-right nationalists” took over Ukraine in 2014 in a “coup” backed by Washington and…
MONTREAL — Some 530 strikers at the Rolls-Royce aircraft engine maintenance plant here rejected another company “final offer” by a vote of 94% at a well-attended union meeting May 11. The workers, members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions…
Soaring prices on basic necessities are wreaking havoc with the lives of working people and our families, at the same time millions remain out of work and bosses are pushing pay cuts, “suicide schedules” and speedups that damage our bodies.…
June 2, 1997 CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Anzac Day celebrations here were seized on by capitalist politicians and media to glorify past military adventures of New Zealand imperialism, and to gain support for the government’s push to refurbish the country’s…
