The protracted political crisis and murderous gang violence in Haiti continues to spiral, with devastating consequences for working people. At least 5,600 people were killed by gangs in 2024, and the number of those forced to flee their homes tripled…
Cosmetic surgeries and injections “have been getting cheaper, less invasive and vastly more common in recent years, in middle income countries as well as rich ones,” a Jan. 4 article in the Economist boasts. “Falling costs and technology have democratized”…
Francisco “Dodong” Nemenzo died in Manila, Philippines, Dec. 19, at the age of 89. “He was highly respected as a longtime president of the University of the Philippines. Throughout his life he was well-known as a socialist who stuck to…
MONTREAL — “You’re the first people to do this here!” construction worker Danny Lelièvre-Copez said when Communist League candidate Katy LeRougetel knocked on his door in a neighborhood in LaSalle here March 9. “We need to make Canada independent,” Lelièvre-Copez…
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Over 1,500 bus drivers, light-rail operators, mechanics and office workers, members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 265, went on strike against the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority here March 10. The system transports 100,000 people a…
MONTREAL — The basic right to free speech and assembly were at the heart of the defense in the frame-up criminal trials of Pat King, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, the most prominent spokespersons for the three-week 2022 “Freedom Convoy”…
OAKLAND, Calif. — Socialist Workers Party mayoral candidate Eric Simpson presented a line of march for the working class to take political power in his remarks at a candidates debate organized by Oaklandside, a widely read news website Feb. 26.…
“The world working people face today is marked by deepening capitalist crises, which drive sharpening conflicts between allies and rivals alike, more wars and the threat of nuclear conflagration. That’s why the Socialist Workers Party campaign starts from the world,”…
The third anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine was marked in a careful but significant way in cities across Russia. Despite public opposition to the war being forbidden by law, with many protesters hit with significant sentences and rough…
If your bank accounts run into eight figures, your housing costs are in the millions and you have oodles of investments in bitcoin, stocks, hedge funds and other speculative endeavors, then you’re one of the people the Wall Street Journal…
