LOUISVILLE, Ky. — “I felt, heard and saw this massive plume of yellow smoke and debris go hundreds of feet in the air right outside my window,” Hannah Nitzken told WHAS-TV News, describing the Nov. 12 explosion at the Givaudan…
December 13, 1999 MIAMI — A political debate is taking place here around the future of a five-year-old Cuban boy, Elián González, who survived a boat smuggling tragedy. U.S. officials have given him residency over the objections of his father…
LOS ANGELES — “Given the events over the last couple days, it is necessary to begin this forum by describing the virulent attack on Jews in Amsterdam Nov. 7, and what it portends,” Norton Sandler, a member of the Socialist…
Israeli blows to Hezbollah in Lebanon have been so devastating that the Jew-hating group — and its backers in Tehran — made it clear Nov. 18 that they are willing to withdraw to some 20 miles north of Israel’s border…
BEVERLY, Mass. — Over 1,400 public school teachers here and in the nearby towns of Gloucester and Marblehead on the North Shore are in their second week of strikes. Members of the Beverly Teachers Association and Union of Gloucester Educators…
For years the rulers in Germany have used their domination of the European Union to enrich themselves on the backs of working people, especially by squeezing their weaker rivals in Greece, Italy and the rest of southern Europe. But today…
Members of the Socialist Workers Party and of the Communist Leagues in Australia, Canada and the U.K. have gone over the top on their quotas in the fall party-building campaign! In the weeks after the U.S. election, party members continued…
NEW YORK — Persistently high rents and home mortgage prices make it increasingly difficult for working people to live here. And workers face similar situations in growing numbers of cities and rural areas across the country. “Why ‘Affordable Housing’ in…
MONTREAL — Some 55,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers went on strike across Canada Nov. 15, fighting for better wages and livable work conditions. Negotiations have dragged on since Nov. 15, 2023. “Canada Post left us no…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has stepped up the pace of his invading forces’ drive to seize more territory in the Donetsk region of Ukraine through “meat wave” frontal assaults. The Ukrainian defenders, stretched and outgunned but motivated and determined to…
