Tens of thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka, from the mostly Tamil north to the largely Sinhalese south, marched April 9 demanding President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resign. The country of 22 million is facing its worst financial crisis since independence in…
Part of the crisis conditions created by capitalism today and deepened by Moscow’s war on Ukraine is the lack of access to electrical power for millions. Days after the invasion, governments worldwide began racing to lock up alternative supplies of…
Eleven Ukrainian political parties were suspended and barred from campaigning by President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government March 20 on trumped-up charges of having “links with Russia.” The majority are small left parties, like the social democratic Social Movement, but the ban…
In 2015 officials in Palm Beach County, Florida, outlawed so-called panhandling or soliciting on or near any road, claiming it endangered people’s safety. Similar laws that exist across the country are used to turn workers who are homeless into criminals…
On the eve of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin issued a warning, “Anyone who tries to interfere with us … must know that Russia’s response will be immediate and will lead you to such consequences as you have never…
Thousands of garment and other workers, above, took to the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, Feb. 17 demanding higher wages. Police fired into a Feb. 23 protest after the workers went on strike. Maxihen Lazzare, a reporter for Roi des…
Tens of thousands of people worldwide have taken to the streets demanding Moscow get its troops out of Ukraine. This includes protests in Russia and countries like Belarus, where the government provided a platform for the Russian rulers’ assault on…
The three men convicted in November of killing Ahmaud Arbery and sentenced in a Georgia state courtroom to life in prison were prosecuted again for the very same crime, this time in federal court, in the same city. The constitutional…
“Angels on Horseback: Midwives in the Mountains,” a KET-TV documentary on PBS, brings to light a pioneering initiative to provide health care in rural Appalachia. Begun in 1925, the Frontier Nursing Service reduced infant mortality and maternal deaths in eastern…
UNION CITY, N.J. — “The Socialist Workers Party and its candidates join working-class struggles against attacks by bosses and their parties, and present a course to lead workers to take power into our own hands,” Joanne Kuniansky, the SWP’s candidate…
