SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — For decades the U.S. government claimed that Puerto Rico was a “showcase for democracy” and a demonstration of the superiority of capitalist development. Today, almost every citizen of the “island of enchantment” knows the truth…
Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao admitted in a Sept. 22 letter to Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand that eight sailors attempted suicide while deployed on the USS Abraham Lincoln and its support ships. The aircraft carrier strike group spent more than…
The three-week campaign of Jonathan Silberman, who is on the ballot as the Communist League candidate in the Holborn and St. Pancras parliamentary by-election in London, has found serious interest since it was launched Sept. 19. “In two weeks of…
Outraged at the sudden acceleration of immigration raids around meatpacking plants in southwestern Kansas, hundreds of people took to the streets to protest in Dodge City, Garden City, Great Bend and Liberal demanding an end to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s…
MONTREAL — In yet another frontal assault on Canadian workers’ right to strike, the Liberal government of Prime Minister Mark Carney introduced in Parliament a 243-page Building Canada Strong Act on Sept. 21. Designated Bill C-39, the law would change…
LIVERPOOL, England — “Solidarity forever!” chanted hundreds of immigrant workers and their supporters at a protest called by public sector workers’ union Unison. They were protesting against the Labour government’s deepening attacks on immigrants. Overwhelmingly care workers, they came from…
NEW YORK — About 1,000 protesters rallied against Jew-hatred near the United Nations headquarters here Sept. 23, in an action called by a broad coalition of Jewish organizations. The next day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the annual U.N.…
SYDNEY — Chanting “What’s outrageous? Airport wages!” over 100 Transport Workers Union members rallied at the Qantas airline domestic terminal here Sept. 24. The action was part of a one-day strike by some 500 Qantas freight workers at Sydney, Adelaide,…
HAVANA — The contributions of Cuban internationalist volunteers to African liberation struggles, and the lessons of those experiences, were highlighted at an Aug. 14 presentation here of Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde: The Fall of…
October 8, 2001 Washington is positioning its warplanes, troops and warships around Afghanistan, preparing for a brutal assault on the people of that country. At the same time the rulers are not wasting a day in pressing their decades-long offensive…
