MONTREAL — Some 130 Teamsters union members at the Richelieu Hardware warehouse here went on strike June 17 demanding higher wages and some respect from the bosses. Picket lines, up 12 hours a day, Monday through Friday, are greeted by…
Statement by Rachele Fruit for the Socialist Workers Party to U.N. Special Committee hearing on the decolonization of Puerto Rico, June 20. Distinguished chairperson and committee members: My name is Rachele Fruit, and I speak on behalf of the Socialist…
The working class continues to feel the squeeze from high prices and challenges getting decent, well-paid full-time jobs to cover their families’ increased living expenses. This reflects the growing capitalist economic and social crisis affecting our lives every day. But…
Supporters of Hamas’ murderous attack on Jews in Israel have launched an escalating series of threats, violent assaults and other provocative actions around the world in an attempt to intimidate Jews and anyone who supports the right of Israel to…
LONDON — “Nothing fundamental will change for working people and youth whatever the outcome” of the July 4 general election, said Peter Clifford, Communist League candidate in the Manchester Rusholme constituency. He was responding to questions from Manchester University Students’…
PHILADELPHIA — “The future of humanity depends on the U.S. working class taking power away from the capitalist rulers and starting down the road to make a socialist revolution,” Rachele Fruit, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. president, told a…
Fourteen political figures in Hong Kong opposed to Beijing’s increasingly authoritarian control over the former British colony were found guilty of “subversion” in a landmark trial against political freedoms May 30. Of the 47 originally arrested, 31 had entered guilty…
The seven-year drive by Democratic Party bosses, prosecutors and the liberal media to bring down, ruin and imprison Donald Trump is accelerating with the coming presidential election. They finally got a conviction by a jury in New York City May…
Baluch farmers have been blocking the entrance (above) to a copper mine in Rameshk in Iran’s Kerman province for over a month and a half. They are protesting the confiscation of their farmland without compensation by the mine owners and…
Israeli soldiers now control most of Gaza’s border with Egypt, dealing blows to Hamas’ ability to collaborate with Tehran to launch new attacks on Jews and Israel, as well as on Gazans opposed to its reactionary rule. Israeli troops found…
