PARIS — Demonstrations by striking high school students demanding a decent education are spreading across France. What began Sept. 18 in Creteil, then three days later in Saint-Denis, both heavily immigrant, working-class suburbs here, rapidly spread to over 40 cities.…
One of the central aims of the U.S. capitalist rulers’ escalating attacks on Cuba is to cripple its popular healthcare system, and they’re doing everything in their power to do so. In response, the Cuban government and people are organizing…
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…
CHICAGO — Hundreds of hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 1, walked out of some of the most famous hotels here Oct. 9, going on strike just hours before the start of the Chicago Marathon, a busy time of…
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…
From October last year to this October “at least 2,230 people have been executed in Iran, including 54 women, 47 political prisoners and four children,” the No to Executions Tuesday campaign reported Oct. 13. Organized by prisoners, the campaign’s weekly…
TORONTO — Eleven Pathfinder volunteers from Canada and the U.S. staffed a lively stand at Toronto’s annual open air Word On The Street fair Sept. 26-27, billed as Canada’s largest no-door-charge book and magazine festival. “Our top seller was Pathfinder’s…
