Congress opened in 2023 with a slim Republican majority in the House and a Democratic Senate and conflicts between and within both of the capitalist rulers’ parties. Neither looks to do much to pass legislation. Both have their eyes on…
On Jan. 8, some 5,000 people stormed Brazil’s Congress, the Supreme Court and presidential offices. Many were supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro. This drew immediate comparison in the liberal press to the Jan. 6, 2021, melee at the U.S.…
ALAMEDA, Calif. — “Leo Marine workers responsible for all cargo ship fueling in the San Francisco Bay voted to join IBU-ILWU last year,” read the call for a Jan. 11 rally here in support of the 30 workers fighting for…
CHICAGO — Some 440 health care workers, members of the Illinois Nurses Association at Howard Brown Health, carried out a three-day strike Jan. 3-5, protesting the layoff of 61 union workers. Strikers include therapists, health educators and greeters, among others,…
The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward is the product of trade union and broader political work over the last year by SWP members responding to deepening cracks in the world order…
MONTREAL — Two recent reports document the longstanding practice of the capitalist rulers in Canada to promote forcibly sterilizing Indigenous women. And the numbers reported are just the tip of the iceberg. This is part of the long history of…
FORT WORTH — Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor, and Gerardo Sánchez, running for City Council in the 5th District, filed for the ballot for the May 6 election in the city secretary’s office here Jan. 18. “We…
Mary Lou Montauk, a lifelong member and supporter of the Socialist Workers Party, died Jan. 5, a few days before turning 93. A meeting to celebrate her life and political contributions will be held Jan. 21 at 8400 Enterprise Way…
The big-business media is hailing the slight drop in inflation rates in Europe last month as a sign that the capitalist rulers are getting price rises under control. But this masks the intolerable impact that decades-high levels continue to have…
QUEBEC CITY — Eighty-one longshoremen, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 2614 at the Port of Quebec here, have been on the picket line since bosses locked them out Sept. 15. While visiting the picket line Dec.…
