The Russian government informed Alexei Navalny’s family Feb. 16 that he had died in prison. Navalny, a well-known critic of the government in Moscow, had been incarcerated in one of Russia’s harsh prison colonies in the Arctic Circle. The announcement…
The Israeli government gave Hamas leaders a deadline of Ramadan in early March to release all the roughly 100 hostages it still holds captive. Otherwise, it said, the Israel Defense Forces will launch a major offensive on Rafah, on the…
Thousands of Uber, Lyft and DoorDash drivers went on a one-day strike on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, in more than a dozen U.S. cities, and at some airports, including Chicago, Miami, San Francisco and Newark, New Jersey. Workers turned off…
HAVANA — The 32nd Havana International Book Fair is a “demonstration of the value our government places on books and reading, given the difficult world situation and intensification of the criminal U.S. blockade,” Juan Rodríguez, president of the Cuban Book…
The Democratic Socialists of America, Communist Party and other Stalinist currents in the U.S. are telling workers Donald Trump is so dangerous they have to back Joseph Biden, the candidate of the Democratic Party, one of the capitalist rulers’ two…
This is the Editor’s Note by Mary-Alice Waters to the new Pathfinder Press expanded edition of Che Guevara on Economics and Politics in the Transition to Socialism by Carlos Tablada. Tablada received the Special Prize from the Cuban cultural institution…
ATLANTA – A meeting to celebrate the political life and contributions of Bruce Kimball, a member and later a supporter of the Socialist Workers Party for more than 50 years, was held here Feb. 4. Kimball died of cancer Jan.…
MONTREAL — There have been 96 recorded cases of arson and graffiti attacks on churches across Canada, more than half of them Catholic churches, with several burned to the ground, since the discovery of what is likely the remains of…
BETHEL, N.Y. — Children enrolled in the Head Start program and their families in Sullivan County, 90 miles north of New York City, took a big hit Feb. 2. I work as a bus driver transporting some of these children.…
NEW YORK — Hamas supporters organizing actions to disrupt the lives of working people worldwide use the suffering of Palestinian civilians in Gaza — a result of Hamas’ strategy of using them as human shields and refusing to build shelters…
