The growing use of sedatives to control elderly residents in understaffed nursing homes was highlighted in a June 12 report by the Pension Research Council at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. Its description of the abusive way…
China’s state capitalist rulers are moving to extend their economic and military reach across the Pacific in a growing challenge to Washington’s decadeslong supremacy there. The U.S. rulers are determined to win out and protect their markets, resources and profits…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — Over 100 people came out June 25 in this south-central Kentucky manufacturing center to welcome home 18-year-old Ernesto Manuel-Andres after he was released from detention in Louisiana by immigration authorities. The predominantly U.S.-born crowd cheered as…
At the center of a recent deadly fight in southern Syria is the Syrian government’s attempt to impose its rule in the predominantly Druze region. This is in contrast to what is often presented in the capitalist press as long-simmering…
BOSTON — “We risk our lives every day on the streets of Boston while the company gets rich,” Daniel Berrios told the Militant July 19. He was one of a dozen workers on the Teamsters picket line in the Roxbury…
There is growing interest in the Socialist Workers Party and its candidates today, spurred by the party’s activities in support of labor battles and its working-class response to deepgoing shifts in world politics. It reflects workers’ increasing recognition that neither…
MIAMI — Hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in the United States on TPS — Temporary Protected Status — who have been protected from deportation will now be allowed to remain until at least Feb. 3, 2026, with the right…
July 31, 2000 UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization held hearings here July 12 on the colonial status of Puerto Rico and approved a resolution that “reaffirms the inalienable right of the people of Puerto Rico…
Events are being held around the world to celebrate the 72nd anniversary of the July 26th attack on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks in Cuba. They mark the opening battle of a revolutionary uprising that would lead…
LAVAL, Quebec — Twenty-four hours after 100 workers walked off the job in a one-day strike July 8, the Heroux-Devtek bosses, rather than negotiating with their union, the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN), locked them out. Heroux-Devtek is the…
