Opposition to the firing, forced retirement or suspension by the government of at least 17 teachers in Iran’s Kurdish region is winning broad support among toilers in Iran and strengthening the fight against the regime’s crackdown on political rights. The…
CHICAGO — “This is my first time on strike, and I’m learning a lot,” Linne Boyd, right, a member of Teamsters Local 705 at Mauser Packaging Solutions, told David Rosenfeld, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate, and SWP member…
Washington is deploying a significant naval and military armada, the U.S. rulers’ latest move in its longstanding efforts to violate the sovereignty of Venezuela and overthrow its president, Nicolás Maduro. It is also a show of force aimed at intimidating…
BALTIMORE — After 170 days in prison in both the U.S. and El Salvador, Kilmar Abrego García won his fight to be released from prison on parole Aug. 22. The wrongfully detained 30-year-old apprentice sheet metal worker and member of…
From left, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tianjin, China, Sept. 1. Xi and Putin claim their alliances are a “multipolar” alternative to Washington’s…
MONTREAL — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Aug. 23-27 working trip to Europe — with stops in Poland, Germany, Latvia and Ukraine — demonstrated his Liberal government aims to advance its position as an imperialist world power. It goes alongside…
FORT WORTH, Texas — “The imperialist epoch we are living through today is characterized by deepening cutthroat competition between rival powers for resources, markets and labor to exploit,” Norton Sandler, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of California, told…
LONDON — Carrying signs saying, “Don’t blame your drivers, blame our bosses,” striking bus drivers picketed the Westbourne Park Garage Sept. 1. Some 2,000 drivers, engineers and controllers, members of Unite the Union, walked out for two days at seven…
Claims Israel is committing genocide and starving Palestinian children in Gaza are growing louder. It’s a theme of the liberal bourgeois media, U.N. agencies, Stalinist parties and Hamas apologists, and the chorus is being joined by growing numbers of capitalist…
EVENDALE, Ohio — More than 600 members of United Auto Workers Local 647 went on strike Aug. 28 against GE Aerospace here and across the Ohio River in Erlanger, Kentucky. Workers at the Evendale plant assemble engines used in marine…
