The Battle of Birmingham in the spring of 1963 was the biggest and broadest action yet against decades of segregation enforced by racist violence. Millions across the country saw fearless fighters against Jim Crow — including thousands of youth —…
President Donald Trump’s administration has backed away from threats of new and larger airstrikes on Iran — for the moment — while intensifying its suffocating economic warfare, including a naval blockade of Iranian ports. It’s working people and oppressed nationalities…
(first of two articles) OBERLIN, Ohio — “The Socialist Workers Party exists, born in class struggle. Build it!” That was the banner displayed above the speakers platform at the party’s 2026 International Conference held here June 11-14. The banner is…
MONTREAL — Noam, a kosher restaurant here, was burned to the ground Aug. 1, one of a growing number of attacks on Jews in Canada. Luckily, no one was in the building at the time. Police are treating the act…
PHILADELPHIA — Cape Verdean filmmaker Elson Santos organized a showing of the new documentary he directed, along with Lara Sousa from Mozambique, to 80 people at the BlackStar Film Festival here July 6-9. The film, “We, People of the Islands,”…
The New York Times and other liberal capitalist news media are claiming that Hamas has agreed to “disarm” in exchange for Israeli troops withdrawing from Gaza, part of a 15-point “peace” plan released July 31 by the so-called Board of…
OAKLAND, Calif. — English singer Boy George took a public stand against Jew-hatred in his new reggae-style song, “We Will Dance Again” issued in late July. The song’s title is a reference to the Nova music festival targeted by Hamas…
MONTREAL — The Communist League here is running an energetic working-class campaign for Joe Young, its candidate for the October elections to the Quebec National Assembly for the electoral district of St. Laurent. Party members joined Young in campaigning at…
This resolution, submitted by a delegate from the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union and seconded by the United Steelworkers union, was adopted unanimously by the convention of the North Dakota State AFL-CIO on June 30. WHEREAS: Both…
HAVANA — The First International Fidel Colloquium: Legacy and Future opened here Aug. 10. René González Barrios, director of the Fidel Castro Ruz Center, which is organizing the four-day event, told participants that the 1,500 people attending include over 1,000…
