Years of battles to win the right of Blacks to vote in the Jim Crow South came to a head with the monthslong fight to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965. During that fight President Lyndon Johnson —…
President Donald Trump announced Oct. 9 an agreement he had reached with Russian President Vladimir Putin for Moscow to immediately supply 2.25 million barrels of diesel to U.S. and global markets. Washington’s surprise announcement aims to bring down energy prices,…
SHARONVILLE, Ohio — Close to 100 Princeton City school bus drivers went on strike here Oct. 1. The workers, who transport over 5,000 students daily, are demanding higher wages after years of unlivable pay and no medical or prescription drug…
“I’m very interested in what you have to say about Cuba,” S.D. Harris, a truck driver, told Samir Hazboun, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Washington, D.C., and campaign supporter Sarah Ullman Oct. 8. Hazboun was introducing the SWP…
NEW YORK — Babacar Dem, a yellow cab driver originally from Senegal, died during a break in his work shift in the bathroom of a Bronx chicken shop in late August. He was the fourth cab driver to die while…
It’s been three years since Oct. 7, 2023, when Gaza-based Hamas thugs — trained, financed and armed by Tehran — swarmed into Israel and carried out the worst slaughter of Jews since the Nazis killed 6 million Jews during the…
Moscow’s invasion forces in eastern Ukraine are losing ground and have suffered a new monthly high of more than 50,000 Russian troop casualties in September, with as many as 28,000 killed. Single-day casualties hit 2,090 on Sept. 28, after 1,960…
LONDON — “Our campaign was about discussing a road forward with fellow workers, building support for union fights and presenting the communist program,” said Jonathan Silberman, the Communist League’s candidate in the Holborn and St. Pancras parliamentary by-election, at a…
Christa Pike is back on death row in Tennessee after two torturous botched execution attempts Sept. 30 left her unconscious, but alive. Despite executioners stabbing at her body, attempting to inject two vials of the lethal drug pentobarbital in her…
