April 20, 1998 SYDNEY — Thousands of unionists around Australia demonstrated April 8 to oppose the overnight sacking of 1,400 dockworkers — the entire workforce of Patrick, one of two main stevedoring companies in Australia. At 11:00 p.m., in a…
In issue no. 14, the caption for the photo about the National Farmers Convention incorrectly said Ellie García, the SWP 2022 candidate for U.S. Senate from California, participated in the conference. A statement by her was distributed at the gathering.
“The Movement and the ‘Madman,’” a new PBS documentary, offers a version of the movement against the Vietnam War in 1969 that blames President Richard Nixon for the war and plays up the role of the Democratic Party that year…
MONTREAL — During the March 25-26 weekend an antisemitic attack on the Bagg Street Shul took place here. Perpetrators spray-painted multiple black swastikas on the front of the 102-year-old synagogue, including on the glass on the front door. The swastikas…
LONDON — More than 60 people gathered here March 26 to celebrate the life and political contributions of Communist League leader Celia Pugh. A 52-year veteran of the communist movement, she died March 4 after a long illness at 70.…
RAYMOND, Minn. — In the early morning hours of March 30 a BNSF train derailed a mile south of here, putting 22 cars, including a number loaded with highly flammable ethanol, on the ground. Over 800 people live in the…
At least one person — a construction worker laboring on the tracks — was killed in a nasty derailment, above, in the village of Voorschoten in the Netherlands at 3:25 a.m. April 4. The double-decker intercity train carrying over 50…
Statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey state Senate, released April 4. The indictment of former President Donald Trump on ginned-up felony charges by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, is an assault on constitutional…
CHICAGO — “A decadeslong retreat by the working class and unions has ended, while the owners of capital and their parties, Democrats and Republicans alike, are intensifying efforts to shift the burden of their crisis onto working people,” Roy Landersen,…
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