Touted by Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer as good for “parents, veterans, nurses, workers” and for “vital services,” a sweeping $1.66 trillion “omnibus” spending package passed the Senate with bipartisan support Dec. 22 and the House the next day. Under…
Following the 2022 elections, working people face both a deepening crisis in the capitalist economy — a slowdown in hiring at the same time prices continue to rise — and attacks on living conditions and constitutional freedoms by the capitalist…
Taking advantage of Donald Trump’s Nov. 15 announcement that he is running for president, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed New York Prosecutor Jack Smith as a special counsel to go after him. Smith is tasked with digging into Trump’s handling…
Rail workers are fighting today to push back their bosses and the government, both of which are responsible for working conditions that are dangerous, exhausting and tear at workers’ ability to have a family and union life. The fight they…
While all the results of the 2022 elections will not be known for weeks, the Democrats held on to the Senate while Republicans have won the House, both by the slimmest of margins. Neither of these parties are capable of…
Throughout the final days of the 2022 campaign, Democrats centered their fire on former President Donald Trump. They claim “democracy itself” is threatened if he ever holds office again. Before Trump was even elected in 2016, Democrats unleashed the FBI…
In the final days of the 2022 campaign, Socialist Workers Party candidates are advancing a fighting working-class program, backing rail workers’ battle for livable working conditions and explaining why opposing government assaults on constitutional freedoms is central for working people.…
With early voting already underway, both Democrats and Republicans claim the midterm elections are the most important in decades. The bosses’ two main parties are laser focused on factional battles against each other. Whichever party controls the House and Senate…
Strikes by members of the Confederation Generale du Travail union (CGT) continue at two refineries owned by Total Energies in France Oct. 24. Workers at the Gonfreville and Feyzin refineries are demanding a 10% pay hike. Their union points to…
With just three weeks before midterm elections, Democrats are ratcheting up their anti-Donald Trump crusade to a fever pitch, with more televised congressional show trial hearings into the Jan. 6, 2021, melee at the Capitol and the House select committee’s…
