Washington’s war on Iran and threats against Cuba’s socialist revolution, along with bosses’ attacks on workers and our unions, are at the center of discussions Socialist Workers Party members are having. The party is in the middle of an eight-week…
LINCOLN, Neb. — Increasingly frequent derailments and deaths of rail workers on the job, along with less and less training for new hires, point to the need for a union fight to take control of conditions on the job. This…
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 members who work at the JBS flagship beef slaughterhouse in Greeley, Colorado, voted to ratify an improved new two-year contract by 93% April 12. UFCW Local 7 President Kim Cordova said in a…
A Russian-flagged tanker with 730,000 barrels of crude arrived in Cuba March 31. After nearly three months of imposing an across-the-board oil blockade on Cuba, President Donald Trump said his administration had “no problem” with the delivery of the Russian…
The Donald Trump administration is alternating between arrogant threats to restart bombing and flattery of current Iranian officials — calling them “smarter” and more “reasonable” than their predecessors, who were assassinated in the U.S. war — to try to reach…
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party, in power for 16 years and backed by both the Kremlin and the Donald Trump White House, were heavily defeated in elections April 12. Peter Magyar’s moderate conservative Tisza party won…
“Am I an American or Am I Not?” is the title of a traveling exhibit currently on display at the public library in Temecula, California. It has been showing in big cities like Boston and small ones like Clarksdale, Mississippi,…
April 23, 2001 HAVANA — “The antiaircraft gunners who fought at Playa Girón were almost all 15, 16, 17 years old. At 22, I was one of the oldest,” said Enrique Dorta, a colonel in Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces, who…
In a legal victory based on the constitutional right to due process, U.S. Federal Judge Timothy Kelly in Washington, D.C., blocked the Department of Justice from transferring 20 former death row prisoners to the only federal “supermax” prison in the…
