Rail and airline workers in the U.S. face the notorious anti-labor Railway Labor Act, which bars their right to strike for years with various deadlines, “cooling-off” periods and other government interference. And, when a strike finally becomes legal, the law…
Prison officials in Huntsville, Texas, executed 41-year-old death row inmate Ramiro Gonzales using a pentobarbital injection June 26. He had been sentenced to death in 2006 for the sexual assault and murder five years earlier of Bridget Townsend, the girlfriend…
Yevgenia Berkovich, left, a prominent theater director, and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk were put on trial in Moscow in May on charges of terrorism over a prize-winning play they staged. Arrested over a year ago and held in jail until the…
MONTREAL — Some 680 mechanics and maintenance workers at WestJet, Canada’s second-largest airline, went on strike June 28, despite a federal government order seeking to force them into compulsory binding arbitration. The workers are fighting for their first union contract…
The American Farm Bureau issued a report leading into the July 4 holiday showing how persistent inflation has boosted the cost of this year’s holiday barbecue to a record high. The average cost for feeding a group of 10 will…
Protests erupted across Kenya June 25, with tens of thousands of mostly young demonstrators pouring into central Nairobi, the country’s capital, as the government passed legislation jacking up taxes on eggs, bread, sugar, cooking oil, diapers and other necessities. When…
Rachele Fruit: the working class alternative in 2024 The widely discussed June 27 debate between President Joseph Biden and former President Donald Trump confirmed that neither capitalist candidate — nor their parties — are capable of addressing the social and…
China’s Coast Guard vessels repeatedly rammed and then troops boarded Philippine naval vessels, injuring several sailors in the Spratly Islands June 17. The clash was the most violent encounter to date between Chinese and Filipino forces whose rulers both claim…
CINCINNATI — After the news broke that Jew-haters had attacked a Jewish cemetery complex here, Socialist Workers Party candidates John Hawkins for U.S. Senate and Ned Measel for U.S. Congress in the First District spoke out. “The cowardly toppling of…
In a victory upholding crucial constitutional freedoms, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the use of an anti-business fraud statute to target Joseph Fischer for his part in the Jan. 6, 2021, melee at the Capitol. This was rapidly followed…
