Israeli tanks and troops entered Rafah May 6, taking control over the border crossing on the Gaza side of the Egyptian border, attacking other military targets and taking out 20 Hamas troops. Israeli forces dropped tens of thousands of leaflets…
When Moscow’s military invaded Ukraine in February 2022, assured by President Vladimir Putin of an easy victory, they were rapidly repelled from Kyiv, the capital, as working people put up fierce resistance. But 60 miles to the north Russian troops…
The birthrate in the U.S. declined to an average of 1.62 births per woman in 2023, the lowest rate recorded since the government began tracking it in the 1930s. The root causes are the squeeze on workers’ living standards and…
As of May 8, some $136,339 has been collected toward the Militant Fighting Fund. With one week left of the campaign to raise $165,000, supporters around the country are stepping up efforts to meet the goal. The Socialist Workers Party…
Liberal media across the country have attempted to paint occupations and other actions organized in defense of Hamas on elite campuses in the U.S. as a new, progressive mass movement in the tradition of the civil rights movement and fight…
Hotel workers and other unionists across the country took the May Day workers’ holiday to hold marches and rallies marking strikes and other fights with the bosses. Below are a few examples. Over 1,000 D.C. hotel workers march on May…
Fidel Castro’s 1985 campaign to unite underdeveloped countries to repudiate their unpayable foreign debts peaked with a Latin American “continental dialogue” in Havana July 30-Aug. 3. Over 1,000 delegates from 17 countries participated. The gathering had been preceded by conventions…
While the reactionary bourgeois-clerical regime in Iran has tried to mount large demonstrations in solidarity with Hamas since its Oct. 7 pogrom against Jews in Israel — a massacre planned and carried out in close collaboration with Tehran — turnout…
MONTREAL — Some 9,300 train conductors, yard workers, train engineers and dispatchers at Canada’s two biggest rail companies — Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Kansas City — are fighting for safe working conditions and livable work schedules. Their contract…
