As part of a brutal war between gangs and vigilante forces in Haiti, some 70 people were killed days before a United Nations-backed peacekeeping force began arriving, supposedly to quell gang violence. Intervention by an earlier U.N.-supported mission had utterly…
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Joan Paltrineri, a member of the Socialist Workers Party for nearly 30 years, from the early 1970s to late ’90s, died Feb. 24, after battling the effects of severe strokes over the past several years. Some 55…
In the midst of Washington’s stepped-up economic war aimed at strangling the Cuban people, “Cuban Book Day” was celebrated in Havana and several of the country’s provinces March 31. The events marked the founding of the country’s National Printing House…
As the crisis of capitalism deepens, conflicts between the competing ruling classes in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere become ever sharper. Washington’s decision to go to war against Iran has exacerbated divisions between the U.S. rulers and the governments of…
UNION CITY, N.J. — “World politics more and more inserts itself into every election campaign,” Paul Mailhot, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New York, told 37 people here at a March 28 Militant Labor Forum. The meeting kicked…
Protests against President Donald Trump were held across the country March 28, organized by the “No Kings” coalition. The intent of the organizers was to whip up support for the Democratic Party, one of the U.S. capitalist rulers’ two main…
WASHINGTON — March 12 marked one year since Kilmar Ábrego García, the 30-year-old Maryland union apprentice sheet metal worker, was picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and illegally deported to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT mega-prison days later. His wife,…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled March 25 to uphold a move by President Donald Trump’s administration that allows the government to detain workers without papers indefinitely. The ruling deals a blow to the constitutional due…
MONTREAL — On March 26 the Supreme Court of Canada concluded a four-day hearing, one of the longest in its history. It focused on challenges to Quebec’s use of the “notwithstanding clause” of the 1982 Canadian Constitution to prevent legal…
SYDNEY — Chanting “What’s outrageous? Swissport wages!” some 40 airport workers, members of the Transport Workers Union, marched through the international terminal at the airport here March 24. Protests demanding better wages and conditions for workers at Swissport were held…
