After working for nearly three years under an expired contract on the nation’s Class 1 freight rail lines, 23,000 engineers received strike ballots from their union, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen. But this doesn’t mean a strike is…
LONDON — In the first national strike here by an industrial union in decades, 40,000 rail workers stopped work for three days last week. Striking members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union included station, signal, maintenance and track workers,…
This statement by Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of Texas and the party’s 2020 presidential candidate, was released June 25. The Socialist Workers Party plans to redouble our efforts — our election campaigns, expanding the reach of…
In one of his most brazen acts of murder of innocent civilians in his invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent cruise missiles that hit a busy shopping mall June 27 in Kremenchuk, far from the front lines of…
“I was born in 1995,” Luke Winnicki told Chris Hoeppner, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress, June 26 in south Philadelphia. “My first memory was Sept. 11, 2001, then there was the 2008 financial crash. My family survived but…
Facing a spreading economic crisis and soaring inflation, especially in things workers need, the U.S. rulers have launched steps that will fuel a deeper downturn in production and jobs. In a model of understatement, Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell told…
UNITED NATIONS — “U.S. laws dealing with Puerto Rico have one purpose — to perpetuate the colony,” said Richard López, speaking for the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. He was one of two dozen pro-independence petitioners at the annual hearing of…
Democrats’ probe into the Jan. 6 incursion into the Capitol building a year and a half ago continues to broaden, while they desperately seek something to run on in 2022 as President Joseph Biden’s poll numbers fall. In the process…
This Cuban documentary produced in 2006 tells the story of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine and Cuba’s exemplary internationalist medical program that treated more than 25,000 victims.
