May 29, 2000 Two counterposed class perspectives on health care, social security and pensions were put forward this past week. Presidential candidate George W. Bush made proposals for a transformation away from Social Security and Medicare. Democrat Vice President Albert…
Russian President Vladimir Putin is pursuing his regime’s murderous war aimed at ending Ukraine’s right to exist as a sovereign state. He has feigned interest in calls by President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for peace talks, while…
Israel’s fight to defend its existence as a refuge from Jew-hatred and pogroms is at the center of the intensifying rivalries gripping the world’s major capitalist powers today. For the working class, the defense of Israel’s existence is a key…
The fight by labor unions and defenders of the rights of immigrants to win the release of Alfredo Juárez Zeferino, a farmworker union militant detained by the immigration police March 25, continues to win support. “The Sugarcane Workers Union (UTC)…
This feature is an excerpt from “Capitalism’s Long Hot Winter Has Begun,” by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. It’s the title article in New International no. 12. Issues no. 7, 10, 11 and 12 of the…
Bakery owners and workers in at least nine cities in Iran protested May 17 and 18 over rising costs, delays in government payments of subsidies aimed at keeping bread prices low, and frequent power outages that ruin production. Bread is…
After Hamas carried out its deadly pogrom Oct. 7, 2023, acrimonious divisions that have wracked Israeli politics for years heated up. It has now turned into a political civil war. The liberal capitalist media in Israel and the U.S. present…
WASHINGTON — “Bring Kilmar Home,” the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA posted on its Facebook page April 27. “Flight attendant, union apprentice, farmworker. It doesn’t matter where you work. An injury to one is an injury to all.” They joined a…
Since Donald Trump retook the presidency earlier this year, he’s said the goal of his administration is to resolve the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, use tariffs to improve U.S. bosses’ profits worldwide and upgrade the U.S. military…
