Young workers are being ravaged by the continuing scourge of inflation marking today’s capitalist economic and social crisis. The average credit card debt for 22- to 24-year-olds has ballooned to a record high of $2,834 per youth at the end…
The opening guns of World War III are getting louder, and the reality of the imperialist epoch is becoming clearer to millions. While the ruling capitalist families wield state power, their drive for profit, dog-eat-dog competition and sharpening clashes inexorably…
Crimea’s indigenous Tatar population has faced occupation, oppression and even mass deportation for generations. A decade after Moscow’s forces seized the peninsula in 2014, the regime of Vladimir Putin has failed to break Tatars speaking out against its rule and…
May 31, 1999 HAVANA, Cuba — “On May 17, 1959, we crossed the Rubicon,” stated Cuban president Fidel Castro at a rally here celebrating the adoption, exactly 40 years ago, of a land reform law, one of the first —…
May 24, 1999 The U.S.-organized NATO forces bombed the central market and a hospital in Nis, Yugoslavia, in midday May 7, killing 14 civilians. They blasted the Chinese embassy in downtown Belgrade that night, killing three people. As protests erupted…
Millions turned out to celebrate May Day across Cuba, as they have since the Cuban Revolution triumphed. Above, rally in Holguín May 1. In Havana some 200,000 gathered at the José Martí Anti-Imperialist Tribune square, joined by Army Gen. Raúl…
CHICAGO — Workers changing shifts or on break at Alpha Baking Co. here May 7 talked with Dennis Richter, running mate of Rachele Fruit, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, as he shook hands with workers and campaigned there.…
MONTREAL — Some 9,300 freight workers at Canadian Pacific Kansas City and Canadian National — Canada’s largest railways — and over 1,200 Montreal port workers have voted by big majorities to strike for better contracts. The rail workers are members…
MIAMI — Kicking off her presidential campaign tour here May 1, Socialist Workers Party candidate Rachele Fruit joined 150 UNITE HERE hotel, airport food service and airline catering workers and their supporters in a rally at the downtown Stephen P.…
Break with the capitalist parties, build a labor party MIAMI — The culmination of Rachele Fruit’s campaign stop here was a public meeting at the Socialist Workers campaign headquarters here on May 5. To begin with, you have to start…
