Below are remarks given by Mary-Alice Waters on Feb. 18 during the 2025 Havana International Book Fair to present Cosmetics, Fashion, and the Exploitation of Women by Joseph Hansen, Evelyn Reed, and Waters (see news article here). Waters is a…
HAVANA — “How do capitalism’s cosmetics and fashion ‘industries’ play on the emotional, sexual and economic insecurities of women and adolescents to generate profits?” That question was at the heart of a lively exchange here among panelists and audience members…
NEW YORK — Loud chants of “Union power, worker strong!” echoed up and down the street in front of the Alamo Drafthouse dine-in theater in Lower Manhattan March 7. Car drivers honked in support and passersby stopped to take a…
TEANECK, N.J. — Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor of New Jersey, joined a protest of some 25 people defending Israel’s right to exist as a refuge from Jew-hatred and pogroms held outside the Marriott Hotel here March…
LONDON — Labour Party Prime Minister Keir Starmer has welcomed Israel’s ceasefire as “desperately needed to end the suffering in Gaza.” For months Starmer has pressured the Israeli government to end the war before Hamas was destroyed and before Israel…
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…
