CHICAGO — The increased mood of resistance in the working class was reflected in the Labor Notes 2024 conference, which took place here April 19-21. Among the 4,700 people attending were workers who had participated in recent strikes and contract…
A spirited picket line of over 100 members of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants and their supporters rallied at Los Angeles International Airport May 9. The action was one of 14 across the U.S. organized as part of a…
CHICAGO — Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, joined the American Airlines flight attendants rallying at O’Hare airport May 9, a highlight of his campaign visit here. Dray Howard, president of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants…
MONTREAL — On May 8 six rail workers in the Teamsters union in Montreal met with Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president. They started with the potential nationwide strike at Canada’s two largest railroads — the Canadian…
Despite strong opposition from the Joseph Biden administration, the Israel Defense Forces are expanding their operations in Rafah, near the Egyptian border, and in Jabaliya and Zeitoun in northern Gaza. They have been destroying Hamas tunnels, weapons stores, rocket launchers…
Under the pressure of Washington and other capitalist powers, a transitional presidential council was established in Haiti April 25 prior to the arrival of a Kenyan-led foreign military force. It’s tasked with quelling the current levels of gang violence and…
Young workers are being ravaged by the continuing scourge of inflation marking today’s capitalist economic and social crisis. The average credit card debt for 22- to 24-year-olds has ballooned to a record high of $2,834 per youth at the end…
The opening guns of World War III are getting louder, and the reality of the imperialist epoch is becoming clearer to millions. While the ruling capitalist families wield state power, their drive for profit, dog-eat-dog competition and sharpening clashes inexorably…
Crimea’s indigenous Tatar population has faced occupation, oppression and even mass deportation for generations. A decade after Moscow’s forces seized the peninsula in 2014, the regime of Vladimir Putin has failed to break Tatars speaking out against its rule and…
May 31, 1999 HAVANA, Cuba — “On May 17, 1959, we crossed the Rubicon,” stated Cuban president Fidel Castro at a rally here celebrating the adoption, exactly 40 years ago, of a land reform law, one of the first —…
