French election reflects impact of crisis hitting working people

Vol. 88/No. 27 - July 22, 2024
Over 100,000 marched in some 250 rallies across France May 1, 2022, including in Toulouse, above, demanding President Macron drop his move to raise workers’ retirement age. Protesters called themselves “gilets jaunes.” Banner reads, “Yellow vests of all countries, unite!”

The final results of the French elections were an “unexpected blow” to the “far right,” the Washington Post claimed July 7, declaring the result “one of the greatest political upsets in recent French history.” Like much of the capitalist media,…


Supreme Court rulings victory for constitutional freedoms

Vol. 88/No. 26 - July 15, 2024

In a victory upholding crucial constitutional freedoms, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the use of an anti-business fraud statute to target Joseph Fischer for his part in the Jan. 6, 2021, melee at the Capitol. This was rapidly followed…



Rulers across Europe boost militaries, war preparations

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024
Nine NATO powers, from U.S. and Europe, engage in joint military exercise in Poland, involving 20,000 troops with tanks and other armored vehicles, including crossing of Vistula River, above, March 4. Operation Dragon 24 was designed as a test response to attack by Moscow.

Rivalries, trade wars and the growing threat of more shooting wars are a reality across the capitalist world today. This future underscores the stakes for working people in organizing to take political power out of the capitalist rulers’ hands. Nowhere…


Conviction of Trump deals new blows to political rights

Vol. 88/No. 24 - June 17, 2024

The seven-year drive by Democratic Party bosses, prosecutors and the liberal media to bring down, ruin and imprison Donald Trump is accelerating with the coming presidential election. They finally got a conviction by a jury in New York City May…


Constitutional freedoms are fruit of hard-fought political struggle

Vol. 88/No. 23 - June 10, 2024
Michael Cohen testifies May 13 in New York courtroom, with prosecutor Alvin Bragg, left, and Donald Trump before Judge Juan Merchan, who imposed gag order on Trump. Biden administration uses courts to try to prevent former president from running, attacks political rights.

Driven by anti-Trump hysteria, the Joseph Biden White House and Democratic prosecutors are using the courts to try to frame up and drive their main opponent for the presidency out of politics. In doing so, they’re dealing serious blows to…


As Trump trial in NY winds down, judge steps up attacks on rights

Vol. 88/No. 22 - June 3, 2024

Democrats desperately hope the outcome of the frame-up trial of Donald Trump they have engineered in New York will be successful and advance their seven-year-long drive to bring him down. Over that time they’ve fabricated claims he colluded with Moscow,…


Judge makes a mockery of the Constitution in NY Trump trial

Vol. 88/No. 21 - May 27, 2024

The right to a fair trial and free speech were dealt serious blows by Judge Juan Merchan as part of the prosecution of presidential candidate Donald Trump initiated by New York City District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat. Bragg ran…


‘Gag’ order on Trump is attack on free speech

Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024

For a second time, Judge Juan Merchan threatened to throw presidential candidate Donald Trump in jail for his public comments. Merchan’s assault on free speech came in response to a prosecutor’s motion for sanctions against Trump for an alleged violation…


Biden, bipartisan Congress expand FBI spy powers

Vol. 88/No. 20 - May 20, 2024

After a yearlong dispute, Democrats and Republicans reached a bipartisan agreement April 20 to renew and expand secret spy powers contained in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. In the process, they advanced steps to try to refurbish the reputation of…