PITTSBURGH — Socialist Workers Party vice presidential candidate Dennis Richter discussed the party’s campaign with Helen Huber, an operating room nurse at West Penn Hospital, above, at a Sept. 4 rally here called by the Service Employees International Union. Nurses…
PORT MOODY, British Columbia — A rally and picnic was held at Rocky Point Park here Sept. 6 by rail workers fighting against Canadian government intervention ending their strike at the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Kansas City railroads. They’re…
LONDON — The 24-story Grenfell Tower apartment building in west London — with broken fire alarms and no sprinkler system — was wrapped in highly flammable cladding, which went up in a fast-spreading blaze in 2017, leaving 72 people dead…
MONTREAL — Lawyers representing Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two of the main spokespeople in the 2022 truckers’ Freedom Convoy, delivered closing arguments in an Ottawa courtroom Aug. 23. Lich and Barber’s trial began last September. Their arguments centered on…
Central to the Democrats’ efforts to hold onto the White House in 2024 are relentless attacks against their main opponent, Donald Trump, including a four-part legal offensive that threatens constitutional rights crucial for working people. They’re determined to get…
Letters keep going to the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee urging it to overturn the ban imposed by Jackson Correctional Institution authorities in Malone on Militant issue no. 17 at the end of April. This impoundment violates prisoners’…
Rachele Fruit: ‘We need to build a party of labor’ BY SARA LOBMAN NEW YORK — “The fight over which class rules is the central question facing working people everywhere in the world,” Rachele Fruit told the 48 people at…
The economic and social crisis facing the working class today is reflected in articles in the capitalist press acknowledging that what they call the “American dream” — a steady job, home ownership, a family and comfortable retirement — is increasingly…
The one-year anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 pogrom in Israel — the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust — is less than a month away. It’s a stark reminder of the deadly character of Nazi-like Jew-hatred in the imperialist…
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, Md. — “The fight to defend our class starts with building solidarity,” Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, told striking Teamster member Jacinta Gamble as they walked the picket line in front of…
