PARIS — During the fourth annual African Book Fair here March 14-16, one Burkinabe participant posted a short TikTok video about the French language edition of Thomas Sankara Speaks, a book that contains all of Sankara’s speeches while he was…
Thousands of working people in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, took to the streets April 2 protesting against the Haitian government’s refusal to protect them from the violence of brutal armed gangs, which have taken control over 85% of the capital city. They…
‘More workers taking SWP seriously than I remember’ OAKLAND, Calif. — “The objective of the Socialist Workers Party is to present the working-class road to taking political power, to change which class rules,” Norton Sandler, the SWP candidate for governor…
VILLA HERMOSA, Dominican Republic — The owners of Central Romana, the largest single employer and landowner in the Dominican Republic, claim their workers are well-treated and well-paid. Although by their own admission — likely inflated — many workers make under…
QUEBEC CITY — Eight thousand striking day care workers from all corners of Quebec marched on the provincial legislature here April 3. Some 13,000 education workers and support staff overall, members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN), from…
Israel’s new offensive in Gaza is aimed at decisively defeating Hamas to prevent it from organizing more murderous pogroms against Jews. Combined with the ongoing protests against Hamas by Palestinians in Gaza, this marks a turning point in the fight…
In the second imperialist world war the German Nazi government of Adolf Hitler attempted to carry through the “Final Solution,” the slaughter of the world’s Jews. With the help of the democratic imperialist leaders in Washington, London and others, who…
Tens of thousands rallied in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, March 31, the anniversary of the 1991 referendum for independence from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics that passed by 99%. That vote capped growing protests and a brutal attack…
The following concluding section of the introduction to Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, was written Oct. 4, 2009. It was read by Mary-Alice Waters as…
As capitalism was displacing feudal rule, Karl Marx, the founder of the communist movement, delivered a “Speech on the Question of Free Trade” in Brussels in 1848. It’s invaluable for understanding why working people need to break from the capitalist…
