LIVERPOOL, England — “Solidarity forever!” chanted hundreds of immigrant workers and their supporters at a protest called by public sector workers’ union Unison. They were protesting against the Labour government’s deepening attacks on immigrants. Overwhelmingly care workers, they came from…
MONTREAL — In yet another frontal assault on Canadian workers’ right to strike, the Liberal government of Prime Minister Mark Carney introduced in Parliament a 243-page Building Canada Strong Act on Sept. 21. Designated Bill C-39, the law would change…
NEW YORK — About 1,000 protesters rallied against Jew-hatred near the United Nations headquarters here Sept. 23, in an action called by a broad coalition of Jewish organizations. The next day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the annual U.N.…
Outraged at the sudden acceleration of immigration raids around meatpacking plants in southwestern Kansas, hundreds of people took to the streets to protest in Dodge City, Garden City, Great Bend and Liberal demanding an end to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s…
The three-week campaign of Jonathan Silberman, who is on the ballot as the Communist League candidate in the Holborn and St. Pancras parliamentary by-election in London, has found serious interest since it was launched Sept. 19. “In two weeks of…
Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao admitted in a Sept. 22 letter to Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand that eight sailors attempted suicide while deployed on the USS Abraham Lincoln and its support ships. The aircraft carrier strike group spent more than…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — For decades the U.S. government claimed that Puerto Rico was a “showcase for democracy” and a demonstration of the superiority of capitalist development. Today, almost every citizen of the “island of enchantment” knows the truth…
“Defending and extending the freedoms protected by the US Constitution is at the center of the class struggle,” the Socialist Workers Party said in its political resolution adopted in 2022. “Workers and farmers must organize and act to prevent the…
A huge glacial avalanche plummeting around a mile vertically down the Himalayas triggered a fast, towering flood that swept through a major river valley formed by the Lhenda Khola, Bhotekoshi and then the Trishuli rivers between Nepal and Tibet Aug.…
For the first time in three years the Federal Reserve raised interest rates this month, claiming this will slow rising prices. This is “bad news for borrowers, good news for savers,” The Associated Press reported. They were obviously happy with…
