Beijing continues to tighten the noose around free political expression in Hong Kong. For years, this had been the only place in China where public rallies could be held to commemorate Beijing’s 1989 military slaughter of Tiananmen Square protesters and…
“Redefining Your Silhouette” is the innocuous-sounding way one hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, advertised taking a scalpel to women’s bodies. What they’re talking about is “rib remodeling,” an invasive medical procedure promising to give women of all ages an “hourglass figure,”…
Just hours after Dolly Parton’s death Aug. 25, a cowardly anonymous vandal imposed a swastika on her photo on Wikipedia, along with the words, “Jew lover.” A look at Parton’s long history shows she was an unapologetic opponent of Jew-hatred…
September 24, 2001 In response to the Sept. 11 attack that destroyed New York’s World Trade Center killing and injuring thousands, Washington is preparing military aggression abroad and new assaults on democratic rights at home. Under the guise of “fighting…
The U.S. rulers, with the aid of their Democratic and Republican parties, are at the forefront of conflicts among rival capitalist powers that are marching humanity toward a third world war, as the imperialists have done twice before since the…
Hundreds of Mexican long-haul truck drivers organized protests on their side of the U.S.-Mexico border Sept. 3-7. Drivers used their semis and other means to block the commercial crossings between Mexicali, in Baja California, Mexico, and Calexico, just across the…
In face of US assaults, Cuba acts to revive industry, farming Three months ago the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba held an Extraordinary Plenary Session, convened by first secretary of the party and president of the republic,…
Below are excerpts from a Nov. 25, 1994, speech by Cuban President Fidel Castro at the closing session of an international solidarity conference in Havana held during the darkest days of economic crisis that followed the collapse of the Soviet…
On Aug. 24 Ukrainians around the world celebrated the 35th anniversary of the winning of their independence, following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Today, arms in hand, they’re defending the country’s sovereignty and defying Russian President Vladimir Putin, who…
CINCINNATI — Nearly 40 comrades and friends came to the American Postal Workers Union hall Aug. 23 to join in celebrating the life and political contributions of Ned Measel, a cadre of the Socialist Workers Party for 48 years. Measel…
