CHICAGO — In July, Union Pacific Railroad announced plans to take over Norfolk Southern. The $85 billion merger deal, if approved by government regulators, would form the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S., moving some 40% of the nation’s rail…
Protests over dire economic and social conditions, lack of jobs and little confidence in a better future facing working people, especially youth, have erupted throughout the North African country of Morocco. The demonstrations, which began Sept. 27, quickly spread to…
MANCHESTER, England — “We are not Jews trembling on our knees,” Raphi Bloom, a leader of the Jewish community here, told more than 1,000 people gathered in the city’s center Oct. 5 to protest the killing of two Jews, Adrian…
NEW YORK — “The working class is not getting what we need. Wages aren’t enough. Health care is going down the drain,” retired fireman Mike Morale told Paul Mailhot, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor, Oct. 5. Mailhot was…
DECATUR, Ga. — “This is the best booth here!” more than one participant at the Oct. 4 Decatur Book Festival told volunteers staffing the Pathfinder Books booth from Atlanta. The one-day event in this Atlanta suburb was attended by thousands…
Two years after the worst pogrom against Jews since the Nazi Holocaust during World War II, the defeat of Hamas remains key to preventing it from carrying out a new Holocaust today. Since President Donald Trump announced his 20-point “peace”…
Thousands gathered across the U.S., in Israel and around the world Oct. 7 to mark the second anniversary of the deadly pogrom carried out by Tehran-backed Hamas and to demand the release of all the remaining hostages. Hamas thugs murdered…
After working people in Cuba overthrew the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and took power, they transformed the country into a sports powerhouse. It leads every nation in the Americas, with the exception of the U.S., in gold…
Working-class families are facing skyrocketing utility bills all across the country as energy monopolies like Con Edison, backed by accommodating government authorities responsible for “regulating” them, are reaping hefty profits. Electricity prices in August surged 31% higher than four years…
MANILA, Philippines — “Women are objectified and commodified. It is a culture that capitalists profit from,” said Virginia Suarez, a lawyer who specializes in women’s and workers’ rights. “When I read this book, I was enriched. Women have to break…
