NEW YORK — Fifteen thousand nurses at three of New York City’s major hospital systems — Montefiore, Mount Sinai and New York-Presbyterian — entered their second week on strike here Jan. 19. The workers walked out at 10 locations on…
MINNEAPOLIS — Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations targeting immigrant workers have escalated here. They’ve spread from the Twin Cities area to Rochester, Willmar, St. Cloud, Mankato, Alexandria, St. James, Fergus Falls, Pelican Rapids, Waite Park and Detroit Lakes. The assaults…
January 22, 2001 The labor movement needs to respond to the power shortages, rate hikes, and skyrocketing fuel prices by demanding government expropriation of the power and energy companies. The anarchy of capitalism, especially in times of economic crisis, brings…
Rapacious wars over land and labor have marked the capitalist system since it replaced feudal rule. The drive to ever-deadlier world war is a permanent reality in the imperialist epoch, announced in the Spanish-American War in 1898. Today, the rivalry…
As we mark the 67th anniversary of the popular triumph in Cuba that opened the way to the first socialist revolution in the Americas, the Spanish edition of Cuba and the Coming American Revolution by Socialist Workers Party National Secretary…
Following Washington’s invasion of Venezuela, President Donald Trump called on Congress to increase the U.S. rulers’ current record-level war spending — $901 billion budgeted this year so far — by more than 50%. Trump’s demands come amid a sharp acceleration…
After launching a military assault on Venezuela and kidnapping Nicolás Maduro, the country’s president, Jan. 3, President Donald Trump’s administration has taken further steps to advance the U.S. rulers’ economic, political and military objectives in Venezuela and across the hemisphere.…
In the wake of the killing of thousands of protesters by the Iranian regime, a two-week wave of demonstrations that began Dec. 28 and spread throughout the country has been pushed back — for the moment. The scope of the…
MONTREAL — “Washington’s Jan. 3 bombing of Caracas and capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, is another major step toward a third imperialist world war driven by the deepening crisis of the world capitalist system,”…
NEW YORK — “Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Unsafe staffing’s got to go,” chanted some 150 nurses on the picket line outside Mount Sinai West hospital here Jan. 13. Nearly 15,000 members of the New York State Nurses Association walked out…
