ERBIL, Kurdistan Region, Iraq — “Cosmetics, Fashion, and the Exploitation of Women helps us understand how the capitalist system that dominates the world today turns not only cosmetics but all economic and social relations into commodities,” said Catharina Tirsén…
U.S. military forces joined those from the Philippines for yearly Balikatan combat drills April 21, preparing for a “full-scale battle scenario” in the disputed South China Sea. These enlarged war maneuvers are a reflection of Washington’s deepening military collaboration with…
“To make lasting change we need to change which class rules,” Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Fort Worth, Texas, told 90 people at an April 21 candidates debate hosted by the Fort Worth Tarrant County NAACP…
‘Best response to SWP in years’ at the Los Angeles book fair LOS ANGELES — The annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books drew thousands to the University of Southern California campus April 26-27. Sales at the Pathfinder booth, featuring…
A massive fire and explosion on the Sahid Rajaee docks in Bandar Abbas, Iran’s largest port, April 26, killed at least 70 people and injured over 1,000. Working people have responded with growing opposition to the reactionary regime and its…
Fifty years ago, the last U.S. troops were expelled from Vietnam, airlifted from the roof of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. Against huge odds, the 30-year struggle of the Vietnamese people for independence led to Washington’s defeat after interventions by…
Despite threats by the government of President Luis Abinader and provocations by pro-government right-wing groups, over 1,000 people marched in Santo Domingo April 27 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the popular upsurge that fought to restore a constitutional government…
May 8, 2000 The widely presumed fact that the reactionary South Korean regime executed thousands of political prisoners and civilians without a trial during the years surrounding the 1950-53 Korean War have been verified through recently released “top secret” documents…
SOMERDALE, N.J. — “The Socialist Workers Party is in a fight to be on the ballot,” Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for governor of New Jersey, told working people during two days of campaigning in the southern part of the state…
MONTREAL — A federal government-appointed arbitrator imposed a new contract April 7 on some 6,000 train conductors, engineers, yardmasters and yard switchmen at Canadian National Railway. They’re members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference. Liberal Minister of Labour Steven MacKinnon…
