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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
MONTREAL — Some 9,300 train conductors, yard workers and dispatchers at Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Kansas City, the two largest rail companies in Canada, cast a second overwhelming strike vote June 29, with a 98.6% yes in an 89.5%…
July 19, 1999 CEIBA, Puerto Rico — In a sea of Puerto Rican flags, 50,000 people marched here July 4 to demand the U.S. Navy leave the island of Vieques. At the beginning of World War II, the Navy took…
