Hospitals, especially in rural areas, are increasingly filing suit against patients for unpaid medical bills that run into the tens of billions of dollars. Some 15 million people in the U.S. owe money to area hospitals, an example of the…
LINCOLN, Neb. — After nearly 20 years of campaigning by advocates of recognition of Malcolm X, a revolutionary leader of the international working class, he was inducted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame May 22. His bronze bust, made by…
UNION CITY, N.J. — “Two SWP candidates file as independents,” the Hudson County View reported June 1. Joanne Kuniansky, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey, and Lea Sherman, the party’s candidate for Congress, filed petitions…
CINCINNATI — “The conviction of Donald Trump was celebrated in huge headlines in the Dallas-Fort Worth newspapers and liberal media across the country,” Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. vice president, told supporters at a June 1 campaign…
EL RENO, Okla. — “America needs an independent labor party from the workers,” Robert Stock said as he signed a card to endorse the campaign of Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, June 2. Stock, above left,…
Starbucks has been cutting its workforce while opening hundreds of new stores in a drive to boost its profits. This means remaining workers are overworked and unable to keep up with the daily barrage of orders. Customers find themselves stuck…
MIAMI — The Joseph Biden administration seized on the May 23 killing of three Christian missionaries working in Haiti — two Americans and a Haitian — to call for an “expedited deployment” of a multinational military force to fight powerful…
Fourteen political figures in Hong Kong opposed to Beijing’s increasingly authoritarian control over the former British colony were found guilty of “subversion” in a landmark trial against political freedoms May 30. Of the 47 originally arrested, 31 had entered guilty…
Baluch farmers have been blocking the entrance (above) to a copper mine in Rameshk in Iran’s Kerman province for over a month and a half. They are protesting the confiscation of their farmland without compensation by the mine owners and…
Claiming its Beth Israel Hospital in New York City is not profitable, Mount Sinai Health System bosses are moving to shut it down piece by piece, impacting hundreds of thousands who live and work in the Lower Manhattan area. They…
