Rising prices — especially on food, gas, rent and other necessities — are wreaking havoc with the lives of millions of working people. Strikes and other struggles by workers and their unions today for wage raises include demands for cost-of-living…
When three Caucasian men were convicted in the Brunswick, Georgia, killing of African American jogger Ahmaud Arbery last November, two were found guilty, not of killing him but of “felony murder.” That is, they didn’t kill Arbery but were present…
Members of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine stopped work at the Chervonogradska mine in the Lviv region Dec. 7 to protest the government’s refusal to pay their back wages. The 42 miners on the first shift sat…
The recent buildup of Russian forces along the border with Ukraine threatens that country’s sovereignty. Moscow seeks to reverse the Ukrainian rulers’ moves toward closer relations with imperialist governments in Europe and the U.S. and to advance its long-term goal…
On Dec. 1, 1955 — 66 years ago — Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, beginning a yearlong bus boycott. The yearlong fight inspired millions and helped spur the mass Black-led…
Forty people joined a Nov. 28 protest in Toronto, above, opposing the decadeslong U.S. government embargo against Cuba, picketing across the street from the U.S. Consulate. The action was part of monthly caravans and rallies initiated at the end of…
The bosses’ drive for profit at the expense of safety led to a deadly coal mine methane gas explosion in the Kemerovo region of southwestern Siberia Nov. 25. Over 50 people were killed and dozens more hospitalized. Five workers who…
For over five years all wings of the Democratic Party, the FBI, and much of the media have campaigned relentlessly to bring down Donald Trump. One of their central claims, written up in a dossier by former British spy…
Two of the three men convicted for the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965 were exonerated Nov. 18. The decision reverses a decadeslong frame-up by the capitalist “justice” system. The convictions of Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam were overturned by…
Profit-driven bosses at Moderna have iced out of the main patent for its COVID-19 vaccine the scientists from the federal government’s National Institutes of Health, which helped pay for and develop it. The fight over this patent exposes the dog-eat-dog…
