President Donald Trump signed an executive order Jan. 29 aiming to sever Cuba’s oil supplies and bring its people to their knees. The decree, intended to force Cubans and their government to bow down to the U.S. rulers’ imperialist dictates,…
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — More than 1,000 supporters, double what organizers expected, packed St. John’s Missionary Baptist Church here Feb. 2 calling for an extension of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, one of many recent solidarity actions. Hundreds more were turned…
FORT WORTH, Texas — On Jan. 21, the Dallas County Commissioners Court voted unanimously to exonerate Tommy Lee Walker. Walker, a 19-year-old Black man, was convicted by an all-white jury of the rape and murder of Venice Parker, a 31-year-old…
Unions help build Minneapolis protests to unite working class MINNEAPOLIS — Across the country last week unionists, high school students and others marched to defend the rights of immigrants to live and work in the U.S. From Chester, New York,…
Seeking to repeat the kind of gunboat diplomacy Washington used to make substantial gains in Venezuela, President Donald Trump has now sent a large armada to the Middle East. He hopes the threat of military action will convince Tehran to…
As protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ attacks, arrests and brutality against immigrants, and those who come out to support them, spread, growing numbers of unionists and others have looked to come to their aid. Socialist Workers Party members…
A collision between two high-speed passenger trains in Andalusia, in southern Spain, Jan. 18 left 45 people dead and at least 150 injured. In the week after the disaster, three other crashes took place. The Spanish Railroad Engineers and Trainmen’s…
“This is not an act of nostalgia, it’s a call to action,” Litza González, national president of the Cuban Federation of University Students (FEU), told tens of thousands of students, young workers and soldiers as they marched from the steps…
MONTREAL — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney received a standing ovation at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last month, when he said he was speaking for the world’s “middle powers” threatened by the “great powers.” Even though he…
The capitalist economic crisis continues to weigh heavily on the backs of working people despite upbeat reports from the White House and the business sections of the boss press. It is true the capitalist rulers and their upper-middle-class hangers-on are…
