A huge earthquake in Myanmar March 28, which killed over 3,000 people and injured thousands more, is fueling growing anger among working people against the military junta there. The government sent troops to the hardest-hit areas, but they were tasked…
As capitalism was displacing feudal rule, Karl Marx, the founder of the communist movement, delivered a “Speech on the Question of Free Trade” in Brussels in 1848. It’s invaluable for understanding why working people need to break from the capitalist…
MONTREAL — A new Quebec government draft “secularization” law imposing an even more far-reaching and divisive dress code on teachers and other school workers “amounts to an attack on the fundamental rights of workers” and “reinforces discriminatory dress codes for…
The following concluding section of the introduction to Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, was written Oct. 4, 2009. It was read by Mary-Alice Waters as…
VILLA HERMOSA, Dominican Republic — The owners of Central Romana, the largest single employer and landowner in the Dominican Republic, claim their workers are well-treated and well-paid. Although by their own admission — likely inflated — many workers make under…
Tens of thousands rallied in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, March 31, the anniversary of the 1991 referendum for independence from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics that passed by 99%. That vote capped growing protests and a brutal attack…
‘More workers taking SWP seriously than I remember’ OAKLAND, Calif. — “The objective of the Socialist Workers Party is to present the working-class road to taking political power, to change which class rules,” Norton Sandler, the SWP candidate for governor…
In the second imperialist world war the German Nazi government of Adolf Hitler attempted to carry through the “Final Solution,” the slaughter of the world’s Jews. With the help of the democratic imperialist leaders in Washington, London and others, who…
Thousands of working people in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, took to the streets April 2 protesting against the Haitian government’s refusal to protect them from the violence of brutal armed gangs, which have taken control over 85% of the capital city. They…
Nearly 1,000 people from Sackets Harbor, a small town of 1,300 in northwest New York state, and the surrounding area marched and protested April 5 against the arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents of a family, a mother and…
