FORT WORTH, Texas — On Jan. 21, the Dallas County Commissioners Court voted unanimously to exonerate Tommy Lee Walker. Walker, a 19-year-old Black man, was convicted by an all-white jury of the rape and murder of Venice Parker, a 31-year-old…
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — More than 1,000 supporters, double what organizers expected, packed St. John’s Missionary Baptist Church here Feb. 2 calling for an extension of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, one of many recent solidarity actions. Hundreds more were turned…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Jan. 29 aiming to sever Cuba’s oil supplies and bring its people to their knees. The decree, intended to force Cubans and their government to bow down to the U.S. rulers’ imperialist dictates,…
Washington has carried out a massive military buildup in the Mideast in recent weeks, including sending the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, destroyers, fighter jets and thousands of troops, on top of the 40,000 already stationed in eight bases across…
Four years into its invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime has intensified its bombardment of energy generation facilities to deny heat, water and electricity to punish and attempt to demoralize Ukraine’s civilian population. But this has just fortified…
The article below by Paul Burnell was published on the BBC North West online edition Feb. 4, reporting the Communist League is running Hugo Wils in the by-election in the Gorton and Denton constituency in Manchester, England. A trade unionist…
Some 100,000 transportation workers walked off the job in Germany Feb. 2, bringing subway trains, buses and trams across the country to a halt in one of the largest labor actions they’ve carried out there in years. The 24-hour strike…
The Spanish Railroad Engineers and Trainmen’s Union (SEMAF) ended a three-day nationwide strike early on Feb. 11 after reaching an agreement with the government over safety as well as other measures. The strike followed a series of train crashes. They…
February 19, 2001 For decades the British government has sought to cover up its responsibility for the 1972 killing of the civil rights marchers in Derry who were shot down in cold blood by British troops. London hoped this murderous…
LOS ANGELES — Some 31,000 Kaiser Hospital nurses and other health care workers in California and Hawaii, organized by the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, have been on strike since Jan. 26. Over 3,000 pharmacy technicians,…
