Tens of thousands of dockworkers, postal workers and machinists are fighting for union contracts that include wage increases to keep up with inflation, livable work schedules and safety on the job. In many cases they are up against not only…
“We’re going out. Oct. 1 we’re going out, they’re not talking,” Anthony Bailey, a longshore worker, told Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, outside the International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1416 hall in Miami Aug. 11. Some…
Hamas’ Oct. 7 Jew-hating pogrom in Israel killing some 1,200 people in a single day and Moscow’s murderous invasion and war on the Ukrainian people mark a watershed in world politics. Capitalist rulers worldwide are preparing for future wars, jacking…
In an Aug. 4 Financial Times column, Pilita Clark, an associate editor at the paper and Harvard graduate, joined the liberal chorus attacking Donald Trump’s vice presidential candidate, J.D. Vance, for comments he made in 2021 about “childless cat ladies.”…
Thousands of Cubans gathered in Sancti Spiritus July 26 to celebrate the 71st anniversary of the rebel assault led by Fidel Castro on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes garrisons in 1953. It was the beginning of constructing a…
Since the watershed in world politics marked by Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the explosion of Jew-hatred on the heels of the Oct. 7 Tehran-backed Hamas pogrom that killed over 1,200 people, mostly Jews, in Israel, capitalist governments worldwide…
Some 45,000 dockworkers, members of the International Longshoremen’s Association who work at ports from Maine to Texas, are preparing to hit the streets Oct. 1 if a new contract isn’t in place. It’s one of three sizable labor battles shaping…
Seventy-one years ago on July 26, workers and youth, led by Fidel Castro, attacked the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba and the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Garrison in Bayamo, opening the battle for Cuba’s socialist revolution. Without fear of…
On July 31 members of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA at Endeavor Air will picket at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. They’re demanding wages equal to those paid at Delta Air Lines, Endeavor’s parent company. While wearing the same uniforms…
Tens of thousands of Kenyans took to the streets last month to protest government moves to raise taxes to meet growing debts to foreign lenders and to appease the International Monetary Fund. Capitalist rulers throughout Africa face the same crisis. …
