LOS ANGELES — After many meetings in recent months, the Los Angeles City Council voted Dec. 11 to increase the minimum wage for more than 23,000 workers in the sizable tourism industry here to $30 an hour by July 2028.…
LAS VEGAS — “Give us the same as the other hotels,” pickets chanted in front of Virgin Hotels Las Vegas Jan. 6. Some 700 members of Culinary Workers Union Local 226 — guest-room attendants, cocktail and food servers, porters, bellmen,…
Despite claims by the outgoing Joseph Biden government and liberal big-business media that inflation is now at “acceptable” levels, working people continue to face the scourge of high prices for basic necessities, from food to energy to rent. Wealthy dabblers…
In a serious assault on constitutional rights, the New Jersey state Assembly voted up a bill Dec. 19 that would more than double petitioning requirements for the Socialist Workers Party and others who aren’t candidates of the bosses’ two main…
On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas and the rulers in Iran announced they had won a huge victory. Thousands of Tehran-backed Hamas thugs crossed the Gaza border into Israel, killed 1,200 people — mostly civilians; wounded thousands; raped and mutilated dozens…
The following greetings were sent by the Sugarcane Workers Union in the Dominican Republic to the New York meeting. To the compañeros of the Socialist Workers Party in the United States. The Sugarcane Workers Union in the Dominican Republic salutes…
NEW YORK — “Under the leadership of Fidel Castro, the Cuban people carried out a successful socialist revolution by uniting working people on the basis of a program that championed their own independent class interests,” Socialist Workers Party National Committee…
As Joseph Biden prepares to turn the presidency over to Donald Trump, his Democratic Party administration leaves working people facing crisis conditions — from sky-high prices for basic necessities to the growing threat of new imperialist wars. Millions of workers…
DALLAS — The Dallas Black Dancers, who were all fired for joining the American Guild of Musical Artists, have reached a $560,000 settlement with Dallas Black Dance Theatre bosses. On Dec. 9 the union described the settlement, which included an…
The government in Germany led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party collapsed Dec. 16 after losing a confidence vote in parliament. Germany, with Europe’s largest economy, has a caretaker government until new elections Feb. 23. Scholz’s fractious coalition, which…
