PITTSBURGH — Over five months after Jim Rogers died after a city cop repeatedly stunned him with a Taser Oct. 13, Pittsburgh Mayor Edward Gainey and Public Safety Director Lee Schmidt announced March 23 that five officers involved had been…
Part of the crisis conditions created by capitalism today and deepened by Moscow’s war on Ukraine is the lack of access to electrical power for millions. Days after the invasion, governments worldwide began racing to lock up alternative supplies of…
April 21, 1997 Millions of Russian workers participated in a nationwide strike March 27 to protest sharply declining economic conditions. It was the largest strike against the government since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Nearly 100,000 people…
Eleven people were killed in three terrorist attacks inside Israel March 22-29, as reactionary Islamist forces sought to inspire a wave of anti-Jewish violence, widening divisions between Jews and Arabs and undermining increased diplomatic and economic ties between Israel and…
NEW YORK — More than 70 drivers for app-based ride-share and food delivery companies caravanned from Brooklyn to Uber headquarters in Manhattan March 29. They are demanding relief from sky-high gas prices that threaten their livelihood, and arbitrary “deactivations” by…
SYDNEY — Flooding in southern Queensland and eastern New South Wales in late February and early March, following exceptionally heavy rain, killed at least 22 people and destroyed or damaged more than 25,000 homes and businesses in the two states.…
At demonstrations against Moscow’s assault on Ukraine, fellow protesters agree with the demands raised by the Socialist Workers Party to defend Ukraine’s independence and for the defeat of Moscow’s invasion. But many question the party’s opposition to Washington imposing far-reaching…
WASHINGTON — Over 100 participants gathered at St. Stephen Church here March 26 for “An Evening in Solidarity with Cuba,” sponsored by the D.C. Metro Coalition in Solidarity with the Cuban Revolution. Kamau Benjamin, one of the leaders of the…
The South Carolina Department of Corrections announced March 18 that it will now organize executions by firing squad, which was legalized last year after a decadelong halt in carrying out any death sentences. The law, adopted last May, makes South…
