‘Jews and Kurds are united in a common struggle’

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025

LONDON — A panel discussion “Reconnecting with Roots: History and Culture of Kurdistan’s Jews and their Impact on Israeli-Kurdish Relations,” was held in the House of Commons March 19, organized by the Jewish-Kurdish Network and the Centre for Kurdish Progress.…


Dominican nightclub collapse shows bosses’ disdain for safety

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025
Rescue workers search for survivors after nightclub roof collapsed in Dominican Republic April 8. Government allowed “building practices that lead to these disasters,” said Jesús Núñez.

“The capitalist owners of that nightclub are scumbags who only care about their self-interests,” said Jesús Núñez, squarely putting responsibility for the roof collapse at a popular nightclub in the Dominican Republic where it belongs. Núñez is national coordinator of…


Back Ukraine sovereignty! US out of Europe!

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025

With no letup in Moscow’s murderous bombardment targeting civilians in Ukraine, working people everywhere should join in backing the Ukrainian people’s courageous fight to defend the country’s sovereignty. Moscow out now! Over three years ago Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime…


Opposition grows to death penalty in Iran

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025
Protest against death penalty at Lakan prison in Iran March 18.

Weekly hunger strikes by political prisoners in Iran, “No to execution Tuesdays,” began 64 weeks ago and had spread to at least 38 prisons by April 8. The reactionary bourgeois-clerical regime executed at least 975 prisoners in 2024, the highest…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 16 - April 28, 2025

April 24, 2000 DENNILTON, South Africa — “Our mission here is not just to help people — it is political. Cuba is making a contribution. We are representatives of the continuity of Cubans who fought and who are still fighting…



Quebec gov’t mounts new attack on religious freedom

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025
Protest against Law 21 in Montreal, 2019. Placard reads, “Muslims, Jews, atheists and Christians are all citizens.” New Bill 94 expands earlier restrictions on wearing religious symbols at work for all school workers, violating freedoms under federal and Quebec human rights charters.

MONTREAL — A new Quebec government draft “secularization” law imposing an even more far-reaching and divisive dress code on teachers and other school workers “amounts to an attack on the fundamental rights of workers” and “reinforces discriminatory dress codes for…


Cane cutters fight for more pay, pensions in Dominican Republic

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025
Sugarcane cutters, many retired, discuss working conditions, fight for pensions, health care in Villa Hermosa, Dominican Republic, March 23. Bosses “treat us as if we are thieves,” said one.

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…


‘SWP’s aim is working-class road to taking political power’

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025
Paul Mailhot, left, SWP candidate for mayor of New York, discusses politics with postal worker Hector Narvaez at National Association of Letter Carriers rally in Harlem Feb. 16.

‘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…


Haitian workers protest gang violence, gov’t disdain

Vol. 89/No. 15 - April 21, 2025

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…