Following years of expanding their state capitalist economy and building up their military, the Chinese rulers are now asserting greater political clout, especially in Asia, leading to sharper tensions with the imperialist rulers in Washington. Conflicts that have been building…
MINNEAPOLIS — “We deserve to have our lives back!” chanted some 150 members of National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 9, family members and supporters outside the main post office here April 2. They’re demanding an end to forced overtime…
When Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor in Fort Worth, Texas, and party member Gerardo Sánchez were going door to door there April 1, warehouse worker Michael Perkins was in his truck, getting ready to go to his…
Life expectancy continues to plunge in the U.S. Today it has fallen to 76 years old, its lowest level in over a quarter century. This is not from a new COVID-19 epidemic, but the deepening social and moral crisis of…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Nearly 300 workers, members of Teamsters Local 89 and Local 135, went on strike March 27 at Sysco here and in Indianapolis. Couple day solidarity strikes spread to California and Washington. Sysco is the largest food distributor…
RICHMOND, Calif. — Over 60 people attended a protest organized by United Steelworkers Local 5 at the Chevron oil refinery here March 23 titled “We are still here.” The leaflet building the action said, “Bring your family, friends and pets…
WEST READING, Pa. — One of the buildings at the R.M. Palmer chocolate factory here exploded and burned to the ground March 24. The blast killed seven people inside the plant. At least 10 others were taken to the hospital. …
GÜINES, Cuba — Farmers at a cooperative here are part of efforts by Cuba’s working people and their revolutionary government to boost agricultural production and reduce dependence on costly food imports. “Last year was very hard,” said Yunaiky Cruz, president…
Jorge Sariol, a journalist for Revista ANAP, magazine of the National Association of Small Farmers in Cuba, reported on a Feb. 24 visit by socialist workers from the U.S. and the U.K. to the Cuban-Bulgarian Friendship Agricultural Cooperative in Güines,…
Capitalism’s World Disorder: Working-Class Politics at the Millennium by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. Written on the eve of the 21st century, it covers the fast-breaking…
