“Inflation, high prices, no to war and destruction,” chanted dozens of retired workers in Shush in Iran’s Khuzestan province. “Livelihood and dignity are our undeniable rights.” Their action was just one of more than a dozen protests or strikes across…
RE’IM, Israel — On July 11, a group of us were taken by our hosts, Vered and Itzik Benayoun, to visit the site of the Nova Festival, now a memorial to the nearly 400 mainly young participants in the all-night…
CHICAGO — Just under 15,000 people attended the American Library Association’s 150th Conference in Chicago June 25-29, with 641 exhibitors coming from 61 different countries. The Pathfinder booth drew people interested in books on crucial questions facing workers today. Pathfinder…
In the face of government indifference to the deadly impact of the spread of the Ebola virus in the northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, doctors, nurses and other medical personnel went on strike July 7 over the fact they’ve never…
The Turn to Industry: Forging a Proletarian Party by Socialist Workers Party National Secretary Jack Barnes is one of the Books of the Month. Barnes has led the political course of the SWP to build a communist party whose members…
From Washington’s war against Iran, to Beijing’s military expansion in the Pacific, Moscow’s war to conquer Ukraine, and squabbles over who will dominate Europe, the capitalist rulers worldwide are preparing for new wars to redivide the world for their profit…
July 30, 2001 A classified Pentagon strategy document elevates “homeland defense” into one of the four pillars of U.S. imperialist military doctrine and gives the military domestic duties in battling terrorism. The rulers know they must confront working people who…
Street protests, meetings press for end to US attacks NEW YORK — Fifty people held a spirited picket line July 11 demanding an end to Washington’s brutal oil blockade, other far-reaching sanctions and war threats against Cuba. The action, sponsored…
MONTREAL — After almost three months on strike, 550 workers at Metro supermarket’s fruit and vegetable warehouse in Laval, its drivers at the warehouse in Rivieres-des-Prairies, and its office workers at its headquarters in Montreal rejected the company’s latest proposal…
“Against Cuba, the United States government is waging a multidimensional, unconventional war that has lasted for almost seven decades and has become more brutal and ruthless in the last seven months,” Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla told a special…
