NEW YORK — Fifteen thousand nurses at three of New York City’s major hospital systems — Montefiore, Mount Sinai and New York-Presbyterian — entered their second week on strike here Jan. 19. The workers walked out at 10 locations on…
As the pace of Washington’s moves to assert its dominance in the Western Hemisphere and worldwide accelerates, intensifying the war moves of its rivals in Europe and elsewhere, the stakes for working people are increasing. Washington’s Jan. 3 attack on…
A dayslong assault by the Syrian army against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces pushed the SDF out of large parts of Kurdish-controlled areas in northeastern Syria Jan. 18. The government tossed aside a ceasefire deal it had signed with the…
MIAMI — With federal authorities having slated Feb. 3 for the end of Temporary Protected Status for Haitian immigrants, they and their supporters have organized a number of actions to fight for extension of legal status in the U.S. The…
Due to the government’s blackout of internet and cellphone services, it’s still unknown how many people in Iran were massacred by the reactionary bourgeois clerical regime Jan. 8-10. One government official told Reuters at least 4,500 protesters had been killed.…
NEW YORK — “There couldn’t be a more important moment to be celebrating the 67th anniversary of the Jan. 1, 1959, victory of the Rebel Army and July 26 Movement over the U.S.-backed Fulgencio Batista dictatorship that opened Cuba’s socialist…
MONTREAL — Some 100 people came out to a picket at the U.S. Consulate here Jan. 11 defending Venezuela’s sovereignty and opposing Washington’s threats to attack Cuba. The action was organized by a dozen groups and promoted by the Quebec-Cuba…
Moscow launched more than two dozen missiles and hundreds of drones in a major assault on Ukrainian residential areas and its power grid Jan. 13. The goal of President Vladimir Putin’s regime is to leave civilians without heat, power and…
The Syrian government of President Ahmed al-Sharaa ordered its forces to lay siege to three largely Kurdish neighborhoods in Aleppo, the second-largest city in Syria, Jan. 6-11. They seized control of two of them, Ashrafiyah and Sheikh Maqsoud, driving out…
Before dawn on Jan. 10 a Jew-hating arsonist set fire to the Beth Israel Congregation synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi, the largest in the state. Two Torah scrolls, holding the most sacred Jewish religious text, were destroyed and five others damaged…
