The capitalist economic crisis in the U.S. continues to tighten the squeeze on working people, with jobs — especially decent-paying, full-time jobs — becoming increasingly difficult to get. Amid high prices for basic necessities, from groceries to transportation, housing, health…
Following Washington’s invasion of Venezuela, President Donald Trump called on Congress to increase the U.S. rulers’ current record-level war spending — $901 billion budgeted this year so far — by more than 50%. Trump’s demands come amid a sharp acceleration…
As we mark the 67th anniversary of the popular triumph in Cuba that opened the way to the first socialist revolution in the Americas, the Spanish edition of Cuba and the Coming American Revolution by Socialist Workers Party National Secretary…
Rapacious wars over land and labor have marked the capitalist system since it replaced feudal rule. The drive to ever-deadlier world war is a permanent reality in the imperialist epoch, announced in the Spanish-American War in 1898. Today, the rivalry…
January 22, 2001 The labor movement needs to respond to the power shortages, rate hikes, and skyrocketing fuel prices by demanding government expropriation of the power and energy companies. The anarchy of capitalism, especially in times of economic crisis, brings…
After launching a military assault on Venezuela and kidnapping Nicolás Maduro, the country’s president, Jan. 3, President Donald Trump’s administration has taken further steps to advance the U.S. rulers’ economic, political and military objectives in Venezuela and across the hemisphere.…
In the wake of the killing of thousands of protesters by the Iranian regime, a two-week wave of demonstrations that began Dec. 28 and spread throughout the country has been pushed back — for the moment. The scope of the…
MONTREAL — “Washington’s Jan. 3 bombing of Caracas and capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, is another major step toward a third imperialist world war driven by the deepening crisis of the world capitalist system,”…
NEW YORK — “Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Unsafe staffing’s got to go,” chanted some 150 nurses on the picket line outside Mount Sinai West hospital here Jan. 13. Nearly 15,000 members of the New York State Nurses Association walked out…
MINNEAPOLIS — Following the Jan. 7 confrontation between Renee Good and her wife Rebecca with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent that led to Good being shot, daily protests and vigils have been carried out on the block where it…
