Millions of people across Cuba were without electricity over several days as the island was hit by a fourth nationwide blackout Oct. 20. The Cuban power grid repeatedly collapsed, choking the economy and making daily life a challenge. This energy…
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — “We started with no supplies, but within a few days we had to open a warehouse to hold all the contributions that were pouring in for victims of the hurricane,” Isabel Beteta told Rachele Fruit, the Socialist…
November 8, 1999 DES MOINES — A fund-raising meeting to aid in the production and distribution of the titles printed and distributed by Pathfinder Press was held here October 23. The featured speaker was Migdalia Jiménez, a member of the…
RENTON, Wash. — The 33,000 Machinists at Boeing voted Oct. 23 on a third contract offer from Boeing. It includes a 35% pay hike over four years, a $7,000 ratification bonus and an increase in the company’s contribution to the…
For more than six decades, the U.S. capitalist rulers have tried by every means possible — from organizing the Bay of Pigs invasion to nuclear confrontation to terrorist bombings to an over 60-year-long, ever-tightening economic embargo — to try to…
“When the Key Bridge collapsed, truckers were promised funds by the government. But that doesn’t mean we saw any money,” Ernest Beard, a trucker and a veteran, told James Harris, Socialist Workers Party candidate for D.C. delegate to the U.S.…
Safeguarding freedom of speech, assembly and worship, the right to bear arms, and other constitutional protections are at the center of politics and the class struggle, and will remain so regardless of which party controls the White House after the…
The capitalist rulers of the Dominican Republic stepped up their crackdown on Haitian immigrants, announcing Oct. 2 they would deport 10,000 every week. Dominican President Luis Abinader demagogically claims this will defend the interests of “the Dominican people,” who, he…
PHILADELPHIA — Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, sat down with Victor Guzman during her campaign stop here, Oct. 16. Guzman is a freight rail conductor and member of the SMART-TD union. He met with Fruit…
