One of the central questions Socialist Workers Party candidates and campaigners are addressing with working people — on strike picket lines, farmsteads and workers’ doorsteps — are the high stakes in defending constitutional freedoms under attack today by President Joseph…
UNITED NATIONS — “The political, economic and social model of colonialism in Puerto Rico has not only failed dismally, but every day it is rejected by more Puerto Ricans,” Adrián González, organization secretary of the Puerto Rican Independence Party, told…
LONDON — The jailing of Carla Foster for having an abortion during the eighth month of pregnancy has stirred discussion here about the broader impact of the deepening capitalist crisis on working people and the fight for women’s rights. Foster,…
NEW YORK — More than 100 members and supporters of the Writers Guild of America rallied outside City Hall here June 22. Some 11,500 WGA members nationwide have been on strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers…
WASHINGTON — An evening forum and a rally at the White House were featured activities June 24 and 25 to demand an end to the six-decade-long economic war against Cuba. They were part of several days of coordinated activities here…
Statement by Rachele Fruit for the Socialist Workers Party to the U.N. Special Committee on Decolonization hearing on Puerto Rico, June 22. Distinguished chairperson and committee members: My name is Rachele Fruit, and I speak on behalf of the Socialist…
From plummeting math and reading test scores for teenage students, to the government’s plan to slash funds for child care, to rising health care costs alongside hospital closings — over 175 in rural areas over the last 15 years —…
“There is no immediate threat to Yellowstone County,” the sheriff’s office there claimed, hours after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed when a bridge over the Yellowstone River collapsed upstream near Columbus, Montana, June 24. “At this time there are…
ERIE, Pa. — Hundreds of strikers picketed at the gates of the Wabtec locomotive manufacturing plant here after 1,400 workers voted down the bosses’ takeback contract demands June 22. The workers are members of United Electrical Workers Local 506, which…
OBERLIN, Ohio — “The sweeping indictment of Donald Trump under the Espionage Act by President Joseph Biden’s Justice Department is another step along the course the Democratic Party has been pressing for seven years of criminalizing political opposition and debate,”…
